Studies in Natural Products Chemistry: Volume 42

ISBN-13: 9780444632814 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 472 str.

Atta-Ur- Rahman

Opis

Natural products in the plant and animal kingdom offer a huge diversity of chemical structures that are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been modulated over the millennia through genetic effects. With the rapid developments in spectroscopic techniques and accompanying advances in high-throughput screening techniques, it has become possible to isolate and then determine the structures and biological activity of natural products rapidly, thus opening up exciting new opportunities in the field of new drug development to the pharmaceutical industry. The series also covers the synthesis or testing and recording of the medicinal properties of natural products, providing cutting edge accounts of the fascinating developments in the isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis, biosynthesis and pharmacology of a diverse array of natural products.

• Describes the chemistry of bioactive natural products
• Contains contributions by leading authorities in the field
• Presents exciting sources of new pharmacophores

Spis treści

1. Glycosphingolipid Ligands for Invariant Natural Killer T Cells as Immunostimulants, Takuya Tashiro and Kenji Mori 2. Synthesis of Imidazole Alkaloids originated in Marine Sponges, Hans-René Bjørsvik and Alexander H. Sandtorv 3. Cerebrosides from Marine Organisms, Valeria P. Careaga and Marta S. Maier  4. Isolation and Analysis of Lignin-Carbohydrate Complexes (LCC) Preparations with Traditional and Advanced Methods: A Review, Mikhail Balakshin, Ewellyn Capanema and Alex Berlin 5. Isolation, Characterization and Biological Activities of Polysaccharides from Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms, Lin Zhang, Karsihma Reddy and Sundar Rao Koyyalamudi 6. Natural Compounds (Small Molecules) as Potential and Real Drugs of Alzheimer´s Disease: A Critical Review, Lucie Cahlíková, Katerina Macáková, Nina Benesová, Jakub Chlebek, Anna Hostálková and Lubomír Opletal 7. Natural Antiviral Compounds, A. E. D. Bekhit and A. A Bekhit 8. Chemopreventive Properties of Fruit Phenolic Compounds and their Possible Mode of Actions, H.P. Vasantha Rupasinghe, Sandhya V.G. Nair and Robin A. Robinson 9. Plant Secondary Metabolites: Structure-Activity Relationships in Human Health Prevention and Treatment of Common Diseases, Silvia R. Leicach and Hugo D. Chludil  10. Assignment of Regio- and Stereochemistry of Natural Products using Mass Spectrometry Chlorogenic Acids and Derivatives as a Case Study, Nikolai Kuhnert, Inamullah Hakim Said  and Rakesh Jaiswal 11. Tetrapyrrole Compounds of Cyanobacteria, Fumio Watanabe, Yukinori Yabuta, and Tomohiro Bito 12. Recent Progress in the Synthesis of 2,6-Disubstituted Hydroxypiperidine Alkaloids, Hidefumi Makabe 13. Structure, Biological Properties and Total Synthesis of Polyhydroxylated Pyrrolizidines of the Hyacinthacines Family, Valérie Desvergnes and Yannick Landais 14. The Synthesis of Seven-Membered Rings in Natural Products, Kleber T. De Oliveira, Bruno M. Servilha, Leandro De C. Alves, André L. Desiderá And Timothy J. Brocksom