Abstract Natural chlorine-, bromine-, iodine-, and fluorine-containing organic chemical
compounds are abundant on our planet. Occurring on land, in the oceans, and in the …

It is sometimes assumed that halogenated organic molecules, organic chemicals containing
one or more carbon− chlorine, carbon− bromine, carbon− iodine, or carbon− fluorine bonds …

Venustatriol, a new tetracyclic ether derived from squalene, which has anti-viral activity, has
been isolated from the red alga Laurencia venusta. Its structure and absolute configuration …

Nature, the most prolific source of biological and chemical diversity, has provided mankind
with treatments for health problems since ancient times and continues to be the most …

Termites (Isoptera), which are a suborder of the cockroaches, are the oldest eusocial insects
[1–3]. It is assumed that they diverged from the Cryptocercoidae, woodfeeding cockroaches …

2.1. 3 Symmetric compounds 2.2 Biogenetic considerations 2.3 Biological activity 3
Polyether triterpenoids from sponges 3.1 Isolation and structure determination 3.1. 1 …

Biomimetic epoxide-opening cascade cyclizations of polyepoxides enable the efficient and
rapid construction of polyether skeletons. In this study, we discovered a method for switching …

Chagas disease and leishmaniasis are tropical neglected diseases caused by
kinetoplastids protozoan parasites of Trypanosoma and Leishmania genera, and a public …

A convergent synthetic entry to the squalenoid polyether system has been developed and
applied to the biologically active marine natural products thyrsiferyl 23-acetate (1a) …

Acanthamoeba genus is a widely distributed and opportunistic parasite with increasing
importance worldwide as an emerging pathogen in the past decades. This protozoan has an …