Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 111

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-v

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2. Sesterterpenoids

   • Takaaki Mitsuhashi, Ikuro Abe

   Pages 1-79

3. Secondary Metabolites from Marine-Derived Fungi from China

   • Zhen Liu, Marian Frank, Xiaoqin Yu, Haiqian Yu, Nam M. Tran-Cong, Ying Gao et al.

   Pages 81-153

The first chapter in volume 111 summarizes research on the sesterterpenoids, which are known as a relatively small group of natural products. However, they express a variety of simple to complicated chemical structures. This chapter focuses on the chemical structures of sesterterpenoids and how their structures are synthesized in Nature. 

The second chapter is devoted to marine-derived fungi, which play an important role in the search for structurally unique secondary metabolites, some of which show promising pharmacological activities that make them useful leads for drug discovery. Marine natural product research in China in general has made enormous progress in the last two decades as described in this chapter on fungal metabolites. This contribution covers 613 new natural products reported from 2001 to 2017 from marine-derived fungi obtained from algae, sponges, corals, and other marine organisms from Chinese waters.

• sesterterpenoids
• marine-derived fungi
• drug discovery.
• Aspergillus
• Penicillium
• polyketides

• College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

  A. Douglas Kinghorn

• Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

  Heinz Falk

• School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

  Simon Gibbons

• Grad. School of Pharmaceutical Science, Hokkaido University, Fukuoka, Japan

  Jun'ichi Kobayashi

• Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan

  Yoshinori Asakawa

• School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South-Central Univ. for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

  Ji-Kai Liu

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