Biocatalysis, using enzymes for organic synthesis, has emerged as powerful tool for the
synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The first industrial biocatalytic …

Biocatalysis has an enormous impact on chemical synthesis. The waves in which
biocatalysis has developed, and in doing so changed our perception of what organic …

Fungal infections pose a serious threat to human health and livelihoods. The number and
variety of clinically approved antifungal drugs is very limited, and the emergence and rapid …

During the whole lifespan from seedling to the mature stage, the plant produces a range of
complex compounds usually known as Secondary Metabolites (SMs) for their cellular and …

Authored by leading experts in the enzymology of natural product biosynthesis, this textbook
provides a thorough description of the types of natural products, the biosynthetic pathways …

Polysaccharide materials are widely applied in different applications including food, food
packaging, drug delivery, tissue engineering, wound dressing, wastewater treatment, and …

Psychedelic mushrooms containing psilocybin and related tryptamines have long been used
for ethnomycological purposes, but emerging evidence points to the potential therapeutic …

Cocaine, the archetypal tropane alkaloid from the plant genus Erythroxylum, has recently
been used clinically as a topical anesthesia of the mucous membranes. Despite this, the key …

We present herein a palladium-catalyzed decarboxylation [2+ 2+ 2] annulation with 3-
iodochromones, bridged olefins, and o-bromobenzoic acids to give various exo-chromone …

Monoterpene indole alkaloids (MIAs) are an expansive class of plant natural products, many
of which have been named on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines …