Natural products in agarwood and Aquilaria plants: chemistry, biological activities and biosynthesis

W Li, HQ Chen, H Wang, WL Mei, HF Dai - Natural product reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: Up to the end of 2019. Agarwood is a resinous portion of Aquilaria trees, which is
formed in response to environmental stress factors such as physical injury or microbial …

Unraveling plant natural chemical diversity for drug discovery purposes

E Lautié, O Russo, P Ducrot, JA Boutin - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The screening and testing of extracts against a variety of pharmacological targets in order to
benefit from the immense natural chemical diversity is a concern in many laboratories …

Applications of OR/ECD/VCD to the structure elucidation of natural products

A Mándi, T Kurtán - Natural product reports, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2012 to 2018 The principles and applicability of optical rotation, and electronic
and vibrational circular dichroism aided by quantum chemical calculations are presented to …

Chemical Constituents and Pharmacological Activity of Agarwood and Aquilaria Plants

S Wang, Z Yu, C Wang, C Wu, P Guo, J Wei - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Agarwood, a highly precious non-timber fragrant wood of Aquilaria spp.(Thymelaeaceae),
has been widely used in traditional medicine, religious rites, and cultural activities. Due to …

Agarwood—the fragrant molecules of a wounded tree

P Shivanand, NF Arbie, S Krishnamoorthy, N Ahmad - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Agarwood, popularly known as oudh or gaharu, is a fragrant resinous wood of high
commercial value, traded worldwide and primarily used for its distinctive fragrance in …

Guaiane-type sesquiterpenoids with various ring skeletons from Daphne bholua uncovered by molecular networking and structural revisions of previously reported …

SH Dong, ZK Duan, YF Ai, XF Zhou, X Zhang… - Bioorganic …, 2022 - Elsevier
The genus Daphne is a treasure-house of secondary metabolites with various biological
effects, which inspired Daphne bholua being fully investigated phytochemically and …

Overview of sesquiterpenes and chromones of agarwood originating from four main species of the genus Aquilaria

M Gao, X Han, Y Sun, H Chen, Y Yang, Y Liu, H Meng… - RSC …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The main chemical constituents of agarwood are sesquiterpenes and chromones, which can
be divided into different categories depending on their molecular skeletons. Agarwoods are …

Genome sequence of the agarwood tree Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Spreng: the first chromosome-level draft genome in the Thymelaeceae family

X Ding, W Mei, Q Lin, H Wang, J Wang, S Peng… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Backgroud Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Spreng is one of the important plant resources
involved in the production of agarwood in China. The agarwood resin collected from …

Guaiane-type sesquiterpenoids from the roots of Stellera chamaejasme L. and their neuroprotective activities

ZY Cheng, ZL Hou, JX Ren, DD Zhang, B Lin… - Phytochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Nine undescribed guaiane-type sesquiterpenoids stelleraterpenoids A‒I, along with seven
reported congeners, were isolated and identified from the 70% EtOH extract of the roots of …

Reassignments and Corroborations of Oxo‐Bridged Natural Products Directed by OSE and DU8+ NMR Computation

AG Kutateladze, EH Krenske… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Structural misassignments of natural products are prevalent in the literature. Developing
methods and theoretical concepts to assist those undertaking structural elucidation is …