Nature’s Pharmaceuticals

Natural products from plants remain at the core of modern medicinal chemistry.For all the biomedical promise of genetic engineering and combinatorial chemistry, the greenhouse, the garden, and the jungle remain key sources of current pharmaceuticals and future drug candidates. Whether directly purified from nature or chemically modified in the lab, these compounds are at the heart of the world pharmacopoeia and the source molecules for directed, knowledge-based medicinal chemistry.

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