Natural Products Research in China From 2015 to 2016

Haishan Liu; Guoliang Zhu; Yaqin Fan; Yuqi Du; Mengmeng Lan; Yibo Xu; Weiming Zhu

doi:10.3389/fchem.2018.00045

Natural Products Research in China From 2015 to 2016

Front Chem. 2018 Mar 20:6:45. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00045. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Haishan Liu^{1

2}, Guoliang Zhu^{1

2}, Yaqin Fan^{1

2}, Yuqi Du^{1

2}, Mengmeng Lan^{1

2}, Yibo Xu^{1

2}, Weiming Zhu^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.
² Laboratory for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts of Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.

Abstract

This review covers the literature published by chemists from China during the 2015-2016 on natural products (NPs), with 1,985 citations referring to 6,944 new compounds isolated from marine or terrestrial microorganisms, plants, and animals. The emphasis is on 730 new compounds with a novel skeleton or/and significant bioactivity, together with their source organism and country of origin.

Keywords: China; bioactivity; natural products; novel skeleton; structure.

Publication types

Review