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Author Spotlight: Discovering New Alkaloids in Plants with Advanced Mass Spectrometry Techniques
Published on: March 8, 2024
Discovery, structure revision, synthesis, and application of all known and even unknown securingine alkaloids
1Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea. sunkyu.han@kaist.ac.kr.
Abstract:
Covering: up to 2025Natural product-based research encompasses the discovery, structure elucidation, biosynthesis, synthesis, and application of naturally occurring secondary metabolites. Securingine alkaloids, isolated from Flueggea suffruticosa, have emerged as valuable molecular frameworks for exploring various aspects of natural product research due to their distinct chemical structures, characterized by unique oxidation and rearrangement patterns. Herein, we provide a comprehensive account of our journey in developing novel synthetic strategies and tactics for accessing all known and even unknown securingines and investigating the potential application of securingine B as a novel class of natural product-based molecular photoswitches.
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