Archive for July, 2011

Natural Product Reports Issue 8 now online

The latest issue of NPR is now available to view online here.

The front cover illustrates a review from Massimo E. Maffei describing recent developments in the study of biosynthesis and medicinal applications of plant VOCs.

In this issue you will also find our regular Hot off the Press feature from Robert Hill and Andrew Sutherland covering current developments in bioorganic chemistry and novel natural products, such as virgatolide A from Pestalotiopsis virgatula and a Highlight article from Hans-Georg Sahl and Karin Thevissen on recent reports of specific defensin targets.

M. Soledade C. Pedras focuses on the phytoalexins produced by cruciferous plants and Annabel C. Murphy discusses the use of metabolic engineering for improving the sustainability of the chemical industry. Finally natural products containing a diazo group are reviewed by Christopher J. Moody while Steven V. Ley discusses those containing the piperazic acid motif.

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Natural products in OBC

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, our sister journal, publishes many articles that cover natural product chemistry. We will try to keep you updated here, but for all the latest articles why not sign up to OBC’s free e-alert and receive the table of contents directly to your inbox every time an issue is published?

The latest natural products’ related articles in OBC Issue 15 have been collated here:

A [Pd]-mediated ω-alkynone cycloisomerization approach for the central tetrahydropyran unit and the synthesis of C(31)–C(48) fragment of aflastatin A
Sachin B. Narute, Neella Chandra Kiran and Chepuri V. Ramana
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 5469-5475
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB05251A

Symmetric dithiodigalactoside: strategic combination of binding studies and detection of selectivity between a plant toxin and human lectins
Sonsoles Martín-Santamaría, Sabine André, Eliza Buzamet, Rémi Caraballo, Gloria Fernández-Cureses, Maria Morando, João P. Ribeiro, Karla Ramírez-Gualito, Beatriz de Pascual-Teresa, F. Javier Cañada, Margarita Menéndez, Olof Ramström, Jesús Jiménez-Barbero, Dolores Solís and Hans-Joachim Gabius
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 5445-5455
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB01235A

Kopsihainanines A and B, two unusual alkaloids from Kopsia hainanensis
Jia Chen, Jian-Jun Chen, Xiaojun Yao and Kun Gao
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 5334-5336
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB05724C

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