Main description:

This book is a compilation of the latest achievements of leading researchers in marine natural products with extremely diverse structures and biological activities. It presents discussions of isolation, structure elucidation, biosynthesis, total synthesis, and biochemical properties of the compounds with characteristic structures such as macrolides, cyclic depsipeptides, alkaloids, and water-soluble heterocyclic low-molecular-weight compounds, from sponges, bacteria, cyanobacteria, flagellates, and other such organisms. The book especially focuses on heterocyclic natural products as a title in the book series, Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry.

Contents:

Marine Bioactive Heterocyclic Compounds (Manzamine and Xestoquinone).- Total Synthesis of Manzamine Alkaloids.- Recent Progress on the Total Synthesis of Dictyodendrins.- Marine Bioluminescence with Imidazopyrazinones.- Chemical and Biological Aspects of Water Soluble Marine Natural Products.- Saxitoxin, a Shellfish Toxin.- Natural Products Screening from Marine Actinomycetes and Bacteria.- Siderophores from Fish Pathogenic Bacteria.- Marine Natural Products Inhibitors of Leishmaniasis.- Total Synthesis of the Amicoumacin Family of Natural Products.- Bioactive Substances from Marine Cyanobacteria.- Cyclic Depsipeptide, Callipeltins.- Synthesis of Marine Macrodiolide Natural Products.- Total Synthesis of Marine Macrolide Natural Products.- Marine Polyethers.- Biosynthesis of Sponge-derived Bioactive Compounds.- Chlorsulpholipids.- Azaspiracid Synthesis, Structure, and Detection.- Structural Elucidation of Callipeltosides A, B and C.