Natural product chemistry is an important and dynamic field of chemistry since it deals with the chemical processes associated with living organisms. This volume contains articles pertaining both to structural studies on novel natural products as well as on elegant synthetic strategies developed to such substances.
Natural product chemistry is an important and dynamic field of chemistry since it deals with the chemical processes associated with living organisms. The investigation of the chemistry of terrestrial and marine organisms has led to a host of novel bioactive compounds many of which now find use in medicine. Such materials offer exciting challenges to synthetic organic chemists and a variety of brilliant approaches and strategies have been developed by leading exponents of the art. This volume contains articles pertaining both to structural studies on novel natural products as well as on elegant synthetic strategies developed to such substances. The contributions made by some of the world's leading scientists in the field of presenting state-of-the-art lectures should prove to be of wide interest to the readers.
Advances in Natural Product Chemistry is the proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium and Pakistan-US Binational Workshop which is held bi-annually at the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, Karachi, Pakistan, and organized by Professor Atta-ur-Rahman
Preface, Foreword, The Invention of Chemical Reactions, Asymmetric
Allylic Alkylations as a Strategy for Synthesis of Natural Products, Studies
Directed toward the Synthesis of the Type A Streptogramin Antibiotics,
Organic Transformations Involving Organocobalt: Mechanisms and Synthesis,
Glycoconjugates: The Importance of Chemistry in an Area of Active Research,
Synthesis of Putative Epoxyestrenone Intermediates in the Metabolism of
Estradiol, Cyclic Phosphates in Syntheses of Nucleotides, Phospholipids and
Related Compounds, Epoxy Sugars as Intermediates in Carbohydrate Syntheses,
Expeditious Approaches to Poly substituted Tetrahydrofurans, Butanolides and
Cyclopropanes Bearing Functionalized Substituents, New Stereoselective
Syntheses of Chiral Pyrethroid Insecticides, Recent Results in the Synthesis
of Brassinolide and Related Compounds, Regioselectivity in the Reactions of
Methoxy Dehydrobenzenes with Furans, Biomimetic Synthesis of Lupine and
Nitraria Alkaloids, Synthetic Studies in the Alkaloid Field. Unexpected
Reactions, Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationship of
3-Arylalkylbenzisoindolines: Novel Potential Antidepressants, Strategies for
the Production of Vinblastine, Synthetic and Biosynthetic Studies on
Bioactive Microbial Metabolites, Structure, Biogenesis and Mode of Action of
Pyoverdins, Bioassay-directed Discovery of Natural Product Leads.
Antibacterials and Anti-fungals from Unusual Sources, Selective Screening of
Natural Products: A Resource for the Discovery of Novel Antimalarial
Compounds, X-ray Diffraction Studies on Novel Natural Products, Diterpenoids
from Salvia Species and their Pharmacological Activities, Studies in the
Chemical Constituents of Some Medicinally Significant Plants, Alkaloids from
Some Turkish Amaryllidaceae Plants, NMR Assignments and Molecular Modeling -
Approaches to Structures and Conformational Analysis of Natural Products,
Active Constituents of Turkish Inula Species, New Compounds from Seaweeds and
Higher Plants, The Use of Modern NMR Techniques in Structure Elucidation of
New Natural Products, Subject Index
Atta-ur-Rahman is director of the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Pakistan. He is well known in the field of natural product chemistry - recent research includes isolation and structure elucidation of new natural products. Atta-ur-Rahman is co-editor in chief of the journal Natural Product Letters.
