Bioinspired total syntheses of natural products: a personal adventure

• Zhengyi Qin,
• Yuting Yang,
• Nuran Yan,
• Xinyu Liang,
• Zhiyu Zhang,
• Yaxuan Duan,
• Huilin Li and
• Xuegong She

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2048–2061, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.160

• on how to use this important strategy in natural product synthesis. Keywords: bioinspired total synthesis; chabranol; gymnothelignans; monocerin; sarglamides; taberginggine; Introduction Natural products are chemical substances generated within living organisms in nature. They are products of