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Ge R, Zhu Y, Wang H, Gu S. Methods and Application of Absolute Configuration Assignment for Chiral Compounds. CHINESE J ORG CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.6023/cjoc202108047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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New Techniques of Structure Elucidation for Sesquiterpenes. PROGRESS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF ORGANIC NATURAL PRODUCTS 2021; 114:253-311. [PMID: 33792862 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59444-2_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The most significant new techniques that have been used in the twenty-first century for the structure elucidation of sesquiterpenes and some derivatives are reviewed in this chapter. A distinctive feature of these methodologies is the combination of accurate experimental measurements with theoretical data obtained by molecular modeling calculations that allow to visualize, understand, and quantify many structural characteristics. This has been the case for NMR spectroscopy, which has expanded its potential for solving complex structural problems by means of comparison with quantum mechanical molecular models. Ab initio and density functional theory calculations of chemical shifts, coupling constants, and residual chemical shift anisotropies have played important roles in the solution of many structures of sesquiterpenes. The assignments of their absolute configurations by evaluation of calculated and experimental chiroptical properties as electronic and vibrational circular dichroism are also reviewed. This chapter also includes the use of X-ray diffraction analysis with emphasis on calculations of the Flack and Hooft parameters, which are applicable to all molecules that crystallize in non-centrosymmetric space groups. The accurate molecular models of sesquiterpenes, validated by concordance with their experimental properties, are nowadays essential for the interpretation of the effects of these natural products on biological systems.
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Huang S, Tang Y, Liu T, Zhang N, Yang X, Yang D, Hong G. A Novel Antioxidant Protects Against Contrast Medium-Induced Acute Kidney Injury in Rats. Front Pharmacol 2020; 11:599577. [PMID: 33329004 PMCID: PMC7729082 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2020.599577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Many studies proposed that oxidative stress and apoptosis are key mechanisms in the pathogenesis of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI). Xylose-pyrogallol conjugate (XP) is an original effective antioxidant that showed decent antioxidant and anti-apoptosis effect before. Thus the therapeutic effect and mechanism of XP in preventing CI-AKI in the short and long term were investigated in this research. Renal function and histological grade were evaluated to determine the severity of renal injury. Kidney samples were then collected for the measurement of oxidative stress markers and the detection of apoptosis. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and western blot of mitochondrial protein were utilized for the analysis of the mitochondrial conditions. The results demonstrated that the CI-AKI rats caused a significant decrease in renal function accompanied by a remarkable increase in Malondialdehyde (MDA), bax, caspase-3, cytochrome c (Cyt C) level, TdT-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) positive apoptotic cells, and damaged mitochondria, while a decline in antioxidase activities and mitochondrial superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2) expression compared with the control rats. However, when XP (50 or 100 or 200 mg/kg/day) was given orally for consecutive 7 days before CI-AKI modeling, XP (200 mg/kg) showed a better capability to restore renal dysfunction, histopathological appearance, the level of apoptosis, mitochondrial damage, oxidative stress, and fibrosis generation without interference in computed tomographic imaging. Our study indicated that antioxidant XP played a nephroprotective role probably via antiapoptotic and antioxidant mechanisms. Besides, XP may regulate the mitochondria pathway via decreasing the ratio of bax/bcl-2, inhibiting caspase-3 expression, cytochrome c release, and superoxide dismutase 2 activity. Overall, XP as a high-efficient antioxidant may have the potentials to prevent CI-AKI.
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- Shuo Huang
- Clinical College of Orthopedics, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Clinical College of Orthopedics, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, China
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- Clinical College of Orthopedics, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, China
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Zatout R, Masi M, Sangermano F, Vurro M, Zonno MC, Santoro E, Calabrò V, Superchi S, Evidente A. Drophiobiolins A and B, Bioactive Ophiobolan Sestertepenoids Produced by Dreschslera gigantea. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2020; 83:3387-3396. [PMID: 33074690 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c00836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Two new bioactive ophiobolan sestertepenoids, named drophiobiolins A and B (1 and 2) were isolated from Drechslera gigantea, a fungus proposed as a mycoherbicide for biocontrol of Digitaria sanguinalis. They were isolated together with ophiobolin A, the main metabolite, 6-epi-ophiobolin A, 3-anhydro-6-epi-ophiobolin A, and ophiobolin I. Drophiobolins A and B were characterized by NMR, HRESIMS, and chemical methods as 7-hydroxy-7-(6-hydroxy-6-methylheptan-2-yl)-1,9a-dimethyl-3-oxo-3,3a,6,6a,7,8,9,9a,10,10a-decahydrodicyclopenta [a,d][8]annulene-4-carbaldehyde and 6-(hydroxymethyl)-3',9,10a-trimethyl-5'-(2-methylprop-1-en-1-yl)-3a,4,4',5',10,10a-hexahydro-1H,3'H-spiro[dicyclopenta[a,d] [8]annulene-3,2'-furan]-5,7(2H,9aH)-dione. The relative configuration of drophiobolins A and B, which did not afford crystals suitable for X-ray analysis, was determined by NOESY experiments, while the absolute configuration was assigned by comparison of their experimental and TDDFT calculated electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra. The phytotoxic activity of drophiobolins A and B was tested by leaf-puncture assay on cultivated (Lycopersicon esculentum L.), as well as on host (Digitaria sanguinalis L.) and nonhost (Chenopodium album L.) weed plants, compared to that of ophiobolin A. Both of the newly identified ophiobolins showed significant phytotoxicity. Drophiobolins A and B exhibited cytotoxicity against Hela B cells with an IC50 value of 10 μM. However, they had a lesser or no effect against Hacat, H1299, and A431 cells when compared to that of ophiobolin A.
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- Roukia Zatout
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cintia 4, 80126 Napoli, Italy
- Laboratoire de Mycologie, de Biotechnologie et de l'Activité Microbienne (LaMyBAM), Département de Biologie Appliquée, Université des Frères Mentouri, Constantine1, BP, 325 Route de Aïn El Bey, 25017 Constantine, Algeria
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cintia 4, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cintia 4, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Istituto di Scienze delle Produzioni Alimentari, CNR, Via Amendola 122/O, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Istituto di Scienze delle Produzioni Alimentari, CNR, Via Amendola 122/O, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze, Università della Basilicata, Via dell'Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cintia 4, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze, Università della Basilicata, Via dell'Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cintia 4, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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Santoro E, Vergura S, Scafato P, Belviso S, Masi M, Evidente A, Superchi S. Absolute Configuration Assignment to Chiral Natural Products by Biphenyl Chiroptical Probes: The Case of the Phytotoxins Colletochlorin A and Agropyrenol. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2020; 83:1061-1068. [PMID: 32091903 PMCID: PMC7997626 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b01068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The application of flexible biphenyls as chiroptical probes for the absolute configuration assignment to chiral natural products is described. The method is straightforward and reliable and can be applied to conformationally mobile and ECD silent compounds, not treatable by computational analysis of chiroptical data. By this approach, the (6'R) absolute configuration of the phytotoxin colletochlorin A (1) was confirmed, while the absolute configuration of the phytotoxin agropyrenol (2), previously assigned by the NMR Mosher method, was revised and assigned as (3'S,4'S). Moreover, with the biphenyl method the configurational assignment can be obtained simply by the sign of a diagnostic Cotton effect at 250 nm in the ECD spectrum, thus allowing application without the need of advanced knowledge of chiroptical spectroscopy and computational protocols.
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- Ernesto Santoro
- Department
of Sciences, University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano
10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
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- Department
of Sciences, University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano
10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
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- Department
of Sciences, University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano
10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
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- Department
of Sciences, University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano
10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples
Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte San’Angelo, Via Cintia 4, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples
Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte San’Angelo, Via Cintia 4, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Department
of Sciences, University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano
10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
- Tel: +39-0971-20-6098. Fax: +39-0971-20-5678.
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Meliacarpinin-Type Limonoids from the Bark of Melia toosendan. Molecules 2018; 23:molecules23102590. [PMID: 30308969 PMCID: PMC6222421 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23102590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2018] [Revised: 09/29/2018] [Accepted: 10/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Three new meliacarpinin-type limonoids, toosendanes A⁻C (1⁻3), along with three, known meliacarpinins (4⁻6) were isolated from the bark of Melia toosendan. Their structures, along with their absolute configurations, were elucidated, based on detailed analyses. These included HRESIMS and 1D/2D-NMR, modified Mosher's method, and electronic circular dichroism (ECD). Limonoids 2 and 3 showed moderate inhibitory activity on LPS-activated, RAW 264.7 macrophages.
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Cao F, Shao CL, Liu YF, Zhu HJ, Wang CY. Cytotoxic Serrulatane-Type Diterpenoids from the Gorgonian Euplexaura sp. and Their Absolute Configurations by Vibrational Circular Dichroism. Sci Rep 2017; 7:12548. [PMID: 28970539 PMCID: PMC5624892 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12841-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2017] [Accepted: 09/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) method has become robust and reliable alternative for the stereochemical characterization of natural products. In this paper, three new serrulatane-type diterpenoids, euplexaurenes A-C (1-3), and a known metabolite, anthogorgiene P (4), were obtained from the South China Sea gorgonian Euplexaura sp. GXWZ-05. The absolute configuration of C-11 in 1-4, which was difficult to be determined by common means due to the high conformational flexibility of the eight-carbon aliphatic chain attached at C-4, was determined by VCD method, suggesting a new horizon to define the absolute configurations of natural products possessing chains. Compounds 1-4 were found to show selective cytotoxic activities against human laryngeal carcinoma (Hep-2) cell line with the IC50 values of 1.95, 7.80, 13.6 and 5.85 μM, respectively.
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- Fei Cao
- School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China; Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, The Ministry of Education of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
- Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Quality Control of Hebei Province, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China
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- School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China; Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, The Ministry of Education of China, Qingdao, 266003, China.
- Laboratory for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266071, China.
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- School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China; Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, The Ministry of Education of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
- Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Quality Control of Hebei Province, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China
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- Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Quality Control of Hebei Province, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China
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- School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China; Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, The Ministry of Education of China, Qingdao, 266003, China.
- Laboratory for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266071, China.
- Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China.
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Burgueño-Tapia E, Joseph-Nathan P. Vibrational Circular Dichroism: Recent Advances for the Assignment of the Absolute Configuration of Natural Products. Nat Prod Commun 2017. [DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1701200501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) emerged during the last decade as a reliable tool for the absolute configuration (AC) determination of organic compounds. The principles, instrumentation, and methodology applied prior to early 2013 were recently reviewed by us. Since VCD is a very dynamic field, the aim of this review is to update VCD advances for the AC assignment of terpenoids, aromatic compounds, alkaloids, and other natural products for the 2013–2014 period, when VCD was applied to the AC assignment of some 70 natural products. In addition, although discovered in 2012, a brief introduction to the VCD exciton coupling approach and its applications in natural products AC assignment is presented.
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- Eleuterio Burgueño-Tapia
- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Prolongación de Carpio y Plan de Ayala, Col. Santo Tomás, México D.F., 11340 Mexico
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Apartado 14–740, México D.F., 07000 Mexico
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Lee S, Hoshino M, Fujita M, Urban S. Cycloelatanene A and B: absolute configuration determination and structural revision by the crystalline sponge method. Chem Sci 2016; 8:1547-1550. [PMID: 28572911 PMCID: PMC5452270 DOI: 10.1039/c6sc04288k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2016] [Accepted: 10/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The crystalline sponge method revealed the absolute configuration of cycloelatanene A and B.
Cycloelatanene A and B are marine natural products first reported a few years ago. Their relative structures had been elucidated by an extensive NMR study and found to be epimers. However, their absolute configurations had not been established because they were isolated in only minute quantities as oily compounds. In this study, the complete structures of cycloelatanene A and B, including absolute configurations, were determined by the crystalline sponge method. The structure analysis confirmed the unique tricyclic structure involving a spiro[5.5]undecene skeleton. One stereogenic centre at C4 was revised as a result of this analysis. Since it only took 1–2 weeks to complete the experiments using the crystalline sponge method (guest-soaking followed by crystallographic analysis), this method is now highly recommended as a first port of call to achieve complete natural product structure elucidation.
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- Shoukou Lee
- Department of Applied Chemistry , School of Engineering , The University of Tokyo , Hongo, Bunkyo-ku , Tokyo , 113-8656 , Japan .
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- Department of Applied Chemistry , School of Engineering , The University of Tokyo , Hongo, Bunkyo-ku , Tokyo , 113-8656 , Japan .
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- Department of Applied Chemistry , School of Engineering , The University of Tokyo , Hongo, Bunkyo-ku , Tokyo , 113-8656 , Japan .
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- School of Science (Discipline of Applied Chemistry and Environmental Science) , RMIT University , GPO Box 2476 , Melbourne 3001 , Victoria , Australia .
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Burgueño-Tapia E, Joseph-Nathan P. Vibrational Circular Dichroism: Recent Advances for the Assignment of the Absolute Configuration of Natural Products. Nat Prod Commun 2015. [DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1501001036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) emerged during the last decade as a reliable tool for the absolute configuration (AC) determination of organic compounds. The principles, instrumentation, and methodology applied prior to early 2013 were recently reviewed by us. Since VCD is a very dynamic field, the aim of this review is to update VCD advances for the AC assignment of terpenoids, aromatic compounds, alkaloids, and other natural products for the 2013-2014 period, when VCD was applied to the AC assignment of some 70 natural products. In addition, although discovered in 2012, a brief introduction to the VCD exciton coupling approach and its applications in natural products AC assignment is presented.
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- Eleuterio Burgueño-Tapia
- Departamento de Quimica Orgdnica, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico National, Prolongatión de Carpio y Plan de Ayala, Col. Santo Tomás, México D.F., 11340 Mexico
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Investigatión y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Apartado 14-740, México D.F., 07000 Mexico
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