Covering: up to 2012 Steroids, a widespread class of natural organic compounds occurring
in animals, plants and fungi, have shown great therapeutic value for a broad array of …

Cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases to haunt mankind in the world today. It is one of
the leading causes of death worldwide. Although overall cancer incidence rates in the …

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 …

Steroid and its derivatives have been proved to have important and diverse biological
functions, which present the wide spectrum of biological activities such as antitumor …

Taxane-type anticancer drugs, including paclitaxel and its semi-synthetic derivatives
docetaxel and cabazitaxel, are widely applied to chemotherapy of malignancy like breast …

Steroidal maleic anhydrides were prepared in one step: lithocholic, chenodeoxicholic,
deoxicholic, ursocholic, and hyodeoxicholic acid derivatives. Their capability to induce cell …

A series of 16 hybrids of Cinchona alkaloids and bile acids (4a–h, 5a–h) was prepared by
means of a Barton–Zard decarboxylation reaction. Quinine, quinidine, cinchonine and …

In our ongoing research program into the discovery of new anticancer drugs, we were
interested in the preparation of naphthoquinone scaffolds bearing aminoalkyl side‐chains …

Abstract Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy contributes very efficiently to the
structure elucidation process in organic chemistry. Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy allows …

In this work, a series of hybrid compounds were tested as antiparasitic substances. These
hybrids were prepared from bile acids and a series of antiparasitic Cinchona alkaloids by …