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Advancements in Natural Products Research from Central and South

America: A Virtual Issue
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C entral and South America harbor some of the world

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biodiversity hotspots. Ethnopharmacology is also rich

and widespread in native populations of Central and South
American countries. Not surprisingly, research in the chemistry
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of natural products has flourished in many countries of Latin

America, toward the discovery of new bioactive compounds
and in chemical ecology, food and cosmetics chemistry,
chemotaxonomy, methods development, and other branches of
natural product sciences.
This special virtual issue of the Journal of Natural Products
assembles a series of articles published between the years 2018
and 2020. The selected papers highlight the chemistry of
plants, marine organisms, macro-organism symbionts, and
other microbes, new approaches for NMR analysis, pharmacol-
ogy of natural compounds, chemometrics, and organic
synthesis. Corresponding authors from diverse Central and
South American countries published significant contributions
in natural products, demonstrating the importance of rationally
developing biological resources for science, the economy, and
social development.
Roberto G. S. Berlinck, Associate Editor, Journal of Natural
Products orcid.org/0000-0003-0118-2523
Philip J. Proteau, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Natural
Products orcid.org/0000-0001-7791-8854

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Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and
not necessarily the views of the ACS.

■ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We hope the readers of the Journal of Natural Products will
appreciate this selection of articles published by researchers
from Central and South American countries.

Published: July 22, 2021

Published 2021 by American Chemical

Society and American Society of https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.1c00628
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