This review highlights the chemical and biological aspects of natural products containing an
oxidized or reduced isoindole skeleton. This motif is found in its intact or modified form in …

Abstract Isoindolin-1-one or 1-isoindolinone framework is referred to phthalimidines or
benzo fused γ-lactams of the corresponding γ-amino carboxylic acids and has been of prime …

Covering: 2012. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep. 2012, 29, 1334. This review covers the
isolation, structural determination, synthesis and chemical and microbiological …

As an important bioactive molecular backbone, drimane meroterpenoids have drawn a great
deal of attention from both pharmacologists and chemists. Inspired by the prevalidated …

This extensive review covers research published between 2010 and 2012 regarding new
compounds derived from marine sponges, including 62 species from 60 genera belonging …

The first total synthesis of marine anti‐cancer meroterpenoids dysideanone B and
dysiherbol A have been accomplished in a divergent way. The synthetic route features: 1) a …

The direct conversion of aliphatic carboxylic acids to their dehomologated carbonyl
analogues has been accomplished through photocatalytic decarboxylative oxygenation …

The sea is a rich source of biological active compounds, among which terpenyl-quinones/
hydroquinones constitute a family of secondary metabolites with diverse pharmacological …

Stachyflin, aureol, smenoqualone, strongylin A, and cyclosmenospongine belong to a family
of tetracyclic meroterpenoids, which, by nature of their unique molecular structures and …

The first and stereoselective synthesis of xylodonin A and 22-hydroxyxylodonin A, two
drimane-type sesquiterpenoid natural products, was developed from the readily available …