Peroxy natural products

Antimalarial natural products: a review

Objective: Malaria is an infectious disease commonplace in tropical countries. For many years, major antimalarial drugs consisted of natural products, but since 1930s these drugs have been largely replaced with a series of synthetic drugs. This article tries to briefly indicate that some plants which previously were used to treat malaria, as a result of deficiencies of synthetic drugs, have rev...

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marine microbial natural products

Isoprene Peroxy Radical Dynamics.

Approximately 500 Tg of 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene (isoprene) is emitted by deciduous trees each year. Isoprene oxidation in the atmosphere is initiated primarily by addition of hydroxyl radicals (OH) to C4 or C1 in a ratio 0.57 ± 0.03 (1σ) to produce two sets of distinct allylic radicals. Oxygen (O2) adds to these allylic radicals either δ (Z or E depending on whether the allylic radical is cis or...

Antimicrobial Natural Products

Natural antimicrobials are secondary metabolites that can be found in plants, animals, and microorganisms.Plants, especially herbs and spices, are been given more attention in natural antimicrobial research, however; this chapter focuses on the newly discoveries in fruits and vegetables. Microorganisms that are been used in food fermentation also produce different antimicrobial metabolites incl...