Preface
It is a great pleasure to announce that with effect from the present Volume 115,
Univ. Prof. Dr. Verena M. Dirsch, University Professor and Head, Department of
Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria has become a new Series
Editor of “Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products”. Prof. Dirsch has
published widely, and has worked in particular on bioassay method development
and mechanism-of-action studies on naturally occurring molecules in medicinal
plants. She has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of this book series
since 2008 (Volume 92). Prof. Dirsch was responsible for organizing the seven
chapters from internationally renowned authors of Volume 110 (“Cheminformatics
in Natural Product Research”; 2019), with the purpose of this volume being to show
how “big data” from natural product collections and databases can be mined by
computerized methods for molecular target identification. In addition to being an
active scientist, Prof. Dirsch has had a number of additional senior administrative
roles at the University of Vienna, including Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Life
Sciences (2008–2014) and Deputy Speaker of the Center of Pharmaceutical
Sciences (2014–present). Prof. Dirsch is warmly welcomed into her new role for
our book series.
Professor Jun’ichi Kobayashi, of the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan has stepped down from his past
position as Series Editor for this book series, and will become a member of the
Editorial Advisory Board. The other Series Editors and Springer are very grateful
for his many contributions to the book series for Volumes 92–114 (2008–2021).
Prof. Kobayashi has had an illustrious academic career in the natural products area,
and has published prodigiously on the structure elucidation of bioactive molecules
from all of marine organisms, terrestrial microbes, and higher plants. He has also
been a research supervisor to over 100 graduate students in the past.
In Volume 115, there are four chapters altogether that feature a varied group of
natural products. In the first of these, Prof. Dr. Bernd Schmidt, of the University of
Potsdam, Germany, has written on the role that total synthesis may play in revising
the structures proposed for decanolides, which are ten-membered lactones found
primarily in fungi, frogs, and termites. Prof. Søren Brøgger Christensen, of the
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It is a great pleasure to announce that with effect from the present Volume 115,
Univ. Prof. Dr. Verena M. Dirsch, University Professor and Head, Department of
Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria has become a new Series
Editor of “Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products”. Prof. Dirsch has
published widely, and has worked in particular on bioassay method development
and mechanism-of-action studies on naturally occurring molecules in medicinal
plants. She has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of this book series
since 2008 (Volume 92). Prof. Dirsch was responsible for organizing the seven
chapters from internationally renowned authors of Volume 110 (“Cheminformatics
in Natural Product Research”; 2019), with the purpose of this volume being to show
how “big data” from natural product collections and databases can be mined by
computerized methods for molecular target identification. In addition to being an
active scientist, Prof. Dirsch has had a number of additional senior administrative
roles at the University of Vienna, including Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Life
Sciences (2008–2014) and Deputy Speaker of the Center of Pharmaceutical
Sciences (2014–present). Prof. Dirsch is warmly welcomed into her new role for
our book series.
Professor Jun’ichi Kobayashi, of the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan has stepped down from his past
position as Series Editor for this book series, and will become a member of the
Editorial Advisory Board. The other Series Editors and Springer are very grateful
for his many contributions to the book series for Volumes 92–114 (2008–2021).
Prof. Kobayashi has had an illustrious academic career in the natural products area,
and has published prodigiously on the structure elucidation of bioactive molecules
from all of marine organisms, terrestrial microbes, and higher plants. He has also
been a research supervisor to over 100 graduate students in the past.
In Volume 115, there are four chapters altogether that feature a varied group of
natural products. In the first of these, Prof. Dr. Bernd Schmidt, of the University of
Potsdam, Germany, has written on the role that total synthesis may play in revising
the structures proposed for decanolides, which are ten-membered lactones found
primarily in fungi, frogs, and termites. Prof. Søren Brøgger Christensen, of the
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