Bioactive marine natural product biosynthesis

R. G. Kerr, Biosynthesis ot Bioactive Marine Natural Products. In Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, A.-U. Rahman, Ed. Bioactive Natural Products (Part B) Elsevier Science Publishers Amsterdam, 2000 Vol. 21 pp 293-328. 

Garson, M. J., Simpson, J. S., Flowers, A. E., and Dumdei, E. J., Cyanide and thiocyanate derived functionality in marine organisms-Structures, biosynthesis and ecology, in Bioactive Natural Products (Part B), Vol. 21, Rahman, A., Ed., Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2000, 329. 

Many polycyclic natural compounds that contain bromine atoms have been isolated from several different marine organisms (Fig. 9.3) [7, 8]. Most of them possess bioactivities of pharmacological interest such as antibacterial, anticancer, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral activities. Natural products that have an a-bromo-p,p-dimethylcyclohexane structure are also bioactive compounds. Their biosynthesis... 

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