Structural simplification of natural products

S Wang, G Dong, C Sheng - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Natural products (NPs) are important sources of clinical drugs due to their structural diversity
and biological prevalidation. However, the structural complexity of NPs leads to synthetic …

Chasing molecules that were never there: misassigned natural products and the role of chemical synthesis in modern structure elucidation

KC Nicolaou, SA Snyder - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Over the course of the past half century, the structural elucidation of unknown natural
products has undergone a tremendous revolution. Before World War II, a chemist would …

Ascidians: producers of amino acid-derived metabolites

BS Davidson - Chemical reviews, 1993 - ACS Publications
During the past 25 years, marinenatural products chemists have enjoyed unrivaled success
in the discovery of unique, new compounds. History has now proven that marine organisms …

Recent applications of the hetero Diels–Alder reaction in the total synthesis of natural products

MM Heravi, T Ahmadi, M Ghavidel, B Heidari… - RSC advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The synthetic utility and potential power of the Diels–Alder (D–A) reaction in organic
chemistry is evident. These significances have been extended to the synthesis of a plethora …

An antifungal polyketide associated with horizontally acquired genes supports symbiont-mediated defense in Lagria villosa beetles

LV Flórez, K Scherlach, IJ Miller, A Rodrigues… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Microbial symbionts are often a source of chemical novelty and can contribute to host
defense against antagonists. However, the ecological relevance of chemical mediators …

Marine metabolites and metal ion chelation: the facts and the fantasies

JP Michael, G Pattenden - Angewandte Chemie International …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
The marine environment is a seemingly inexhaustible treasury of organisms whose
secondary metabolites bear witness to the lavishness and inventiveness with which nature …

Biomedical potential of marine natural products

CM Ireland, BR Copp, MP Foster, LA McDonald… - … and bioactive natural …, 1993 - Springer
Marine natural products, the secondary or nonprimary metabolites produced by organisms
that live in the sea, have received increasing attention from chemists and pharmacologists …

Novel cytotoxic compounds from the ascidian Lissoclinum bistratum

BM Degnan, CJ Hawkins, MF Lavin… - Journal of medicinal …, 1989 - ACS Publications
The isolation and structures of two new cyclic hexapeptides and two new macrocyclic ethers
from the aplousobranch ascidian Lissoclinumbistratum are described. Their structures were …

Discovery of a lagriamide polyketide by integrated genome mining, isotopic labeling, and untargeted metabolomics

CH Fergusson, J Saulog, BS Paulo, DM Wilson… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Microorganisms from the order Burkholderiales have been the source of a number of
important classes of natural products in recent years. For example, study of the beetle …

Synthesis of bistramide A

AV Statsuk, D Liu, SA Kozmin - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2004 - ACS Publications
We have developed an efficient and highly stereocontrolled synthesis of bistramide A, a
selective activator of protein kinase C isotype δ. Our synthetic strategy featured a novel …