New Challenges in Structure Elucidation of Marine Natural Products: NMR Analyses and Other Advanced Methods
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2020) | Viewed by 47476
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine natural product chemistry; marine sponges; marine microbiology; marine chemical ecology; bioactivity; antifouling, anti-biofilm compounds
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Dear Colleagues,
The marine field continues to represent a prolific source of innovative natural products with remarkable biological activities. However, the structure elucidation of these specialized metabolites is often a true challenge due to their small quantity and their complexity. Most of the isolated molecules possess multiple stereocenters, can be halogenated or have peculiar functional groups. Assigning the absolute stereostructure and the conformational properties, which are crucial in biological activities, remains a challenging problem.
X-Ray analyses for crystalline compounds or chemical synthesis approaches including chemical degradation as well as NMR chiral derivatization but also computational studies are the main strategies developed for elucidating the absolute configuration of these molecules. More recently, original approaches of chiroptical methods such as electronic circular dichroism and vibrational circular dichroism have emerged as powerful tools expanding the traditional methods.
This Special Issue proposes to focus on the different challenging strategies, including advanced NMR and innovative stereochemistry determination approaches, for solving the identification of the marine natural products.
Dr. Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- NMR analyses
- X-ray structure analyses
- partial or total enantioselective synthesis
- chemical degradation
- NMR analyses of Mosher esters and related derivatives
- electronic circular dichroism (ECD or CD)
- vibrational circular dichroism (VCD)
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