Main description:

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 determine the structures and biological activity of natural products rapidly, thus opening up exciting opportunities in the field of new drug development to the pharmaceutical industry.

This series covers the synthesis or 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.

Contents:

1. Potentially Chemopreventive Triterpenoids and Other Secondary Metabolites From Plants and Fungi 2. Structural Diversity, Natural Sources and Pharmacological Potential of Naturally Occurring A-Seco-Triterpenoids 3. Kaurenoic Acid: A Diterpene With a Wide Range of Biological Activities 4. Review of Patents Based on Triterpene Glycosides of Sea Cucumbers 5. Bioactive Dietary Compounds Regulate Mitochondrial Apoptosis Signaling in Ambivalent Way to Function as Neuroprotective or Antitumor Agents 6. Dietary Carotenoids for Reduction of Cancer Risk 7. Dihydrochalcones: Occurrence in the Plant Kingdom, Chemistry and Biological Activities 8. Synthetic Advances in the Indane Natural Product Scaffolds as Drug Candidates: A Review 9. Garcinoic Acid: A Promising Bioactive Natural Product for Better Understanding the Physiological Functions of Tocopherol Metabolites 10. Antibiotics Derived From Marine Organisms: Their Chemistry and Biological Mode of Action