Natural products play an important role in the development of drugs, especially for the
treatment of infections and cancer, as well as immunosuppressive compounds. However …

This review provides a personal account of the explorations of a research group in
oligosaccharide and glycoconjugate construction. The journey began twenty years ago with …

Plants, marine organisms, and microorganisms have evolved complex chemical defense
and signaling systems that are designed to protect them from predators and provide other …

The field of carbohydrate chemistry has occupied the minds and hearts of many scientists for
over a hundred years and, as we enter the twenty‐first century, it continues to be both …

Ever since the initial reports of the enediyne anticancer antibiotics in the late 1980s,
researchers from a number of disciplines have been devoting increasing attention to their …

The discovery and development of the o-iodoxybenzoic acid (IBX) reaction with certain
unsaturated N-aryl amides (anilides) to form heterocycles are described. The application of …

The systematic modification of natural products through diverted total synthesis is a powerful
concept for the systematic modification of natural products with the aim of studying …

Calicheamicins: discovery, structure, chemistry, and interaction with DNA Page 1 Acc. Chem.
Res. 24, 235-243 235 bration under basic conditions. Conversion into the thiopyranone 122 …

Deoxysugars and the oligosaccharides derived from them belong to one of the most
important, but often most neglected, group of biological compounds. As a result of important …

Neue biologisch aktive Substanzen aus natürlichen Quellen sind für Naturwissenschaftler
und Mediziner oft aufregend, stimulierend sowie Herausforderung und Chance zugleich …