Synthesis of Marine Natural Products and Molecules Inspired by Marine Substances III
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 4098
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine natural products; chemical synthesis; immunomodulatory molecules; drug discovery
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Dear Colleagues,
Marine natural products have extraordinary chemical diversity, biochemical specificity and other molecular properties that make them suitable for consideration as lead structures for drug discovery. In this regard, one of the main problems is the typical low bioavailability, which can complicate both the structural characterization and possible future biological and pharmacological developments. For these reasons, an important step in the study and investigation of bioactive marine metabolites is the development of chemical synthesis and synthetic strategies aimed at the preparation of pure compounds and analogs both for structural confirmation and/or for large-scale preparation. Marine natural products could be a pivotal starting point to pave the way to new classes of biologically active compounds with pharmacological potential.
This Special Issue is the third version on these subjects (the first and second editions are available at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/marinedrugs/special_issues/Synthesis_Inspired and https://www.mdpi.com/journal/marinedrugs/special_issues/Synthesis_Immunomodulatory) and aims to collect original research articles regarding synthetic strategies for secondary marine metabolites and/or analogs that can favor applications and/or can solve structural challenges common in the field of natural substances.
Dr. Emiliano Manzo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Marine compounds
- Immunomodulatory molecules
- Metabolites
- Drug discovery
- Synthesis
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