Publications of 2019 – Invited review in NPR

After a while not posting for too many reasons, we start 2020 including the activities of 2019 which have not been mentioned here. The first is the review “Approaches for the isolation and identification of hydrophilic, light-sensitive, volatile and minor natural products”, published in Natural Product Reports. This was an invited review by the guest editors Julia Kubanek (School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology), Hendrik Luesch (College of Pharmacy, University of Florida) and Roger Linington (Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University).

The co-authors were all post-doctoral researchers (Afif Monteiro, Juliana Gubiani, Luciane Tonon), PhD students (Ariane Bertonha, Darlon Bernardi, Vitor Freire) and MSc students (Lamonielli Michaliski, Juliano Slivinski and Vitor Venâncio). Collecting the bibliography was somewhat a challenge because in most cases finding articles dealing with water-soluble or hydrophilic and light-sensitive compounds is difficult. In many cases, there are no keywords related to these particular features, what is different for volatile compounds. It was a detective work.

Here is the picture of the original graphical abstract. Alcatrazes island is photographed behind the Petri dish. It is a very beautiful location where we have collected a couple of times in the past.

Preparing the manuscript was truly a team work, that also included a critical revision by Dr. Camila Crnkovic (see the acknowledgments). We very much thank Professors Kubanek, Luesch and Linington for the opportunity in preparing the review for the special issue of NPR on “New methods for isolation and structure determination of natural products”. We also thank the RSC editorial team for the support during the preparation of the review.

We hope the readers will enjoy reading it here.