The Annonaceous acetogenins are promising new antitumor and pesticidal agents that are
found only in the plant family Annonaceae. Chemically, they are derivatives of long-chain …

In 1789, the Annonaceae family was catalogued by de Jussieu. It encompasses tropical and
subtropical plants which are widespread in distribution across various continents such as …

Covering: the literature from 1998 to 2004 The aim of the present review is to summarise the
knowledge about newly isolated acetogenins (ACGs) in the last six years. It will also report …

In 1860, Oliver Wendell Holmes pointedly expressed himself to the Massachusetts Medical
Society:“I firmly believe that if the whole Material Medica, as now used, could be sunk to the …

sp 3 -sp 3 Coupling reactions in the synthesis of natural products and biologically active
molecules - Natural Product Reports (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C3NP70108E Royal …

Irrespective of the presence of cytotoxic acetogenins and styryl‐lactones in the genus
Goniothalamus, only 22 species in the genus Goniothalamus, out of 160 species (13.7%) …

Studies on the Annonaceous acetogenins began after the first cytotoxic acetogenin, uvaricin,
was isolated in 1982. This attractive finding made many medicinal and natural product …

Substituted pyranones and tetrahydropyrans are structural subunits of many bioactive
natural products. Considerable effort is devoted toward the chemical synthesis of these …

In recent decades, annonaceous acetogenins have become highly studied plant secondary
metabolites in terms of their isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis, biological evaluation …

An overview of recent progress on the total synthesis of acetogenins from Annonaceae
during the past 12 years is provided. These include mono-tetrahydrofurans, adjacent bis …