One of the leading global causes of death is cancer; even though several treatment methods
have improved survival rates, the incidence and fatality rates remain high. Naphthoquinones …

Naturally occurring naphthoquinones, usually in forms of botanical extracts, have been
implicated with human life since ancient time, far earlier than their isolation and identification …

The non-communicable disease, cancer, is one of the major causes of death across the
world and is forecast to increase by 75% to reach close to 25 million cases over the next two …

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death around the world and although the different
clinical approaches have helped to increase survival rates, incidence is still high and so its …

Introduction: A large number of natural products including several synthetic drugs possess
naphthoquinone chromophore. Various methods have been devised for their synthesis …

Natural product derivatives are essential in searching for compounds with important
chemical, biological, and medical applications. Naphthoquinones are secondary …

Naphthoquinones are widely distributed in nature and many clinically important antitumor
drugs containing a quinone moiety, such as anthracyclines, mitoxantrones and saintopin …

Abstract The 1, 4-naphthoquinones, important members of the family of quinones are used
as both crude extracts and as compound manipulated by the pharmaceutical industry. They …

Naphthoquinones are exceptional building blocks in organic synthesis and have been used
to synthesize several well‐known pharmaceutically active agents. Herein we report the …

To examine the effect of hydrophobicity on the anticancer activity of 1, 4-naphthoquinone
derivatives, a series of compounds bearing a 2-O-alkyl-, 3-C-alkyl-or 2/3-N-morpholinoalkyl …