18th International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products, Strasbourg, France, 30 August–4 September 1992
This conference is part of the Natural Products series.
Preface
Traditional Chinese medicines and new drug development
How Nature builds the pigments of life
Design, synthesis, and evaluation of DNA minor groove binding agents
Oxidative bond cleavage reactions in Nature; mechanistic and ecological aspects
From amino acids to prebiotic active peptides: A chemical reconstitution
Recent applications of radical reactions in natural product synthesis
Intramolecular strategies and stereoelectronic effects. Glycosides hydrolysis revisited
Hexose nucleic acids
Reflections on the total synthesis of natural products: Art, craft, logic, and the chiron approach
Evolution of catalytic function
DNA-drug interactions
Glycopeptides of biological interest: A challenge for chemical synthesis
Structural elucidation and chiral syntheses of insect pheromones and extension of the synthetic approaches
Possible evolutionary relationships in a signal transduction system
Biotin biosynthesis
Oncoprecipitins: A novel type of natural substances and oncofetal antigens
Comprehensive survey of endogenous regulators of crustacean moulting
Progress towards the total synthesis of the enediyne anticancer antibiotics
On the origins of organic matter in carbonaceous chondrites
The biosynthesis of triterpenoids of the hopane series in the Eubacteria: A mine of new enzymatic reactions
Genetically engineered synthesis of natural products
Biosynthesis and synthesis of bioactive natural lactams
Stereocontrolled synthesis via chiral aziridines
Superacidic cyclization of terpenoids
Oligonucleotide derivatives: Biologically active compounds targeted to specific genes
The cradle chemistry of life: On the origin of natural products in a pyrite-pulled chemoautotrophic origin of life
Synthesis of antitumour agents