Terpenes

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Editor: Prof. Jeroen S. Dickschat
Universität Bonn
 
Terpenes are exciting natural products from several points of view. Their structure elucidation is often challenging, and also their chemical synthesis and biosynthetic investigations are difficult to perform and require special strategies. Terpenes can be used for transfer of stereochemical information in new enantioselective reagents or catalysts, or they can be of interest because of their unique bioactivities. Any article covering one or several of these aspects of terpene chemistry is welcome, regardless if it is an experimental or a theoretical study. Studies on natural products of purely terpenoid origin and on meroterpenoids are both welcome.

This thematic issue is dedicated to Prof. Kenji Mori who passed away on April 16, 2019. With him the scientific community lost one of the most eminent pheromone and terpene chemists of the past decades. Prof. Mori has published more than 1,200 scientific articles and was actively engaged in science for more than 62 years. He pioneered the importance of chirality in natural signalling compounds and was most respected for his accuracy in this field of research. Prof. Mori's work will be continued by his countless students, collaborators from academia and industry, and many researchers worldwide that have been influenced by him.

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Terpenes

  • Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2966–2967, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.292

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Published 13 Dec 2019

New sesquiterpenoids from the South China Sea soft corals Clavularia viridis and Lemnalia flava

  • Qihao Wu,
  • Yuan Gao,
  • Meng-Meng Zhang,
  • Li Sheng,
  • Jia Li,
  • Xu-Wen Li,
  • Hong Wang and
  • Yue-Wei Guo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 695–702, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.64

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Published 15 Mar 2019

An efficient synthesis of the guaiane sesquiterpene (−)-isoguaiene by domino metathesis

  • Yuzhou Wang,
  • Ahmed F. Darweesh,
  • Patrick Zimdars and
  • Peter Metz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 858–862, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.83

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Published 09 Apr 2019

New terpenoids from the fermentation broth of the edible mushroom Cyclocybe aegerita

  • Frank Surup,
  • Florian Hennicke,
  • Nadine Sella,
  • Maria Stroot,
  • Steffen Bernecker,
  • Sebastian Pfütze,
  • Marc Stadler and
  • Martin Rühl

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1000–1007, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.98

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Published 30 Apr 2019

Mechanistic investigations on multiproduct β-himachalene synthase from Cryptosporangium arvum

  • Jan Rinkel and
  • Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1008–1019, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.99

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Published 02 May 2019

Phylogenomic analyses and distribution of terpene synthases among Streptomyces

  • Lara Martín-Sánchez,
  • Kumar Saurabh Singh,
  • Mariana Avalos,
  • Gilles P. van Wezel,
  • Jeroen S. Dickschat and
  • Paolina Garbeva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1181–1193, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.115

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Published 29 May 2019

Molecular basis for the plasticity of aromatic prenyltransferases in hapalindole biosynthesis

  • Takayoshi Awakawa and
  • Ikuro Abe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1545–1551, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.157

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Published 11 Jul 2019

Archangelolide: A sesquiterpene lactone with immunobiological potential from Laserpitium archangelica

  • Silvie Rimpelová,
  • Michal Jurášek,
  • Lucie Peterková,
  • Jiří Bejček,
  • Vojtěch Spiwok,
  • Miloš Majdl,
  • Michal Jirásko,
  • Miloš Buděšínský,
  • Juraj Harmatha,
  • Eva Kmoníčková,
  • Pavel Drašar and
  • Tomáš Ruml

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1933–1944, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.189

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Published 13 Aug 2019
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Published 14 Aug 2019

Isolation and characterisation of irinans, androstane-type withanolides from Physalis peruviana L.

  • Annika Stein,
  • Dave Compera,
  • Bianka Karge,
  • Mark Brönstrup and
  • Jakob Franke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2003–2012, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.196

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Published 23 Aug 2019

Bipolenins K–N: New sesquiterpenoids from the fungal plant pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana

  • Chin-Soon Phan,
  • Hang Li,
  • Simon Kessler,
  • Peter S. Solomon,
  • Andrew M. Piggott and
  • Yit-Heng Chooi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2020–2028, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.198

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Published 26 Aug 2019

Genome mining in Trichoderma viride J1-030: discovery and identification of novel sesquiterpene synthase and its products

  • Xiang Sun,
  • You-Sheng Cai,
  • Yujie Yuan,
  • Guangkai Bian,
  • Ziling Ye,
  • Zixin Deng and
  • Tiangang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2052–2058, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.202

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Published 28 Aug 2019

Harnessing enzyme plasticity for the synthesis of oxygenated sesquiterpenoids

  • Melodi Demiray,
  • David J. Miller and
  • Rudolf K. Allemann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2184–2190, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.215

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Published 17 Sep 2019

Isolation of fungi using the diffusion chamber device FIND technology

  • Benjamin Libor,
  • Henrik Harms,
  • Stefan Kehraus,
  • Ekaterina Egereva,
  • Max Crüsemann and
  • Gabriele M. König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2191–2203, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.216

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Published 19 Sep 2019

Current understanding and biotechnological application of the bacterial diterpene synthase CotB2

  • Ronja Driller,
  • Daniel Garbe,
  • Norbert Mehlmer,
  • Monika Fuchs,
  • Keren Raz,
  • Dan Thomas Major,
  • Thomas Brück and
  • Bernhard Loll

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2355–2368, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.228

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Published 02 Oct 2019

Synthetic terpenoids in the world of fragrances: Iso E Super® is the showcase

  • Alexey Stepanyuk and
  • Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2590–2602, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.252

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Published 31 Oct 2019

Nanangenines: drimane sesquiterpenoids as the dominant metabolite cohort of a novel Australian fungus, Aspergillus nanangensis

  • Heather J. Lacey,
  • Cameron L. M. Gilchrist,
  • Andrew Crombie,
  • John A. Kalaitzis,
  • Daniel Vuong,
  • Peter J. Rutledge,
  • Peter Turner,
  • John I. Pitt,
  • Ernest Lacey,
  • Yit-Heng Chooi and
  • Andrew M. Piggott

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2631–2643, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.256

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Published 05 Nov 2019

Emission and biosynthesis of volatile terpenoids from the plasmodial slime mold Physarum polycephalum

  • Xinlu Chen,
  • Tobias G. Köllner,
  • Wangdan Xiong,
  • Guo Wei and
  • Feng Chen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2872–2880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.281

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Published 28 Nov 2019

Bacterial terpene biosynthesis: challenges and opportunities for pathway engineering

  • Eric J. N. Helfrich,
  • Geng-Min Lin,
  • Christopher A. Voigt and
  • Jon Clardy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2889–2906, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.283

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Published 29 Nov 2019
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