Studies in Natural Products Chemistry: Volume 52

Studies in Natural Products Chemistry covers the synthesis, testing, and recording of the medicinal properties of natural products, providing cutting-edge accounts of the fascinating developments in the isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis, biosynthesis, and pharmacology of a diverse array of bioactive natural products.

Natural products in the plant and animal kingdom offer a huge diversity of chemical structures that are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been modulated over the millennia through genetic effects. With the rapid developments in spectroscopic techniques and accompanying advances in high-throughput screening techniques, it has become possible to isolate and then rapidly determine the structures and biological activity of natural products, thus opening up exciting opportunities in the field of new drug development in the pharmaceutical industry.

Autorentext
Atta-ur-Rahman, Professor Emeritus, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry and Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research), University of Karachi, Pakistan, was the Pakistan Federal Minister for Science and Technology (2000-2002), Federal Minister of Education (2002), and Chairman of the Higher Education Commission with the status of a Federal Minister from 2002-2008. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) and an UNESCO Science Laureate. He is a leading scientist with more than 1283 publications in several fields of organic chemistry.

Inhalt

1. Natural Environments for Nanoparticles Synthesis of Metal, Metal Oxides, Core-Shell and Bimetallic Systems
2. 2-Aminoimidazoles: Synthesis by Ring Transformation Reactions
3. Strategies for Total Synthesis of Furanocembranolides and Related Natural Products From Marine Organisms
4. Phyllobilins: A New Group of Bioactive Compounds
5. Artemisinin the Nobel Molecule: From Plant to Patient
6. Bioactive Polyphenols for Diabetes and Inflammation in Psoriasis Disease
7. Nonhalogenated Heterotricyclic Sesquiterpenes From Marine Origin I: Fused Systems
8. Phytochemicals With Antileishmanial Activity: Prospective Drug Targets
9. Parthenolide and Parthenolide-Like Sesquiterpene Lactones as Multiple Targets Drugs: Current Knowledge and New Developments
10. Alkaloids From Apocynaceae: Origin, Pharmacotherapeutic Properties, and Structure-Activity Studies