{"id":3047,"date":"2023-02-20T02:07:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T02:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/natural-products-synthesis\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T02:07:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T02:07:40","slug":"natural-products-synthesis","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/natural-products-synthesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural products Synthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many &nbsp;medicinal drugs come from natural resources such as plants, insects, &nbsp;corals, etc. One typical example is the synthesis of the commonly known &nbsp;as Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, acetylsalicylic acid &nbsp;(aspirin) &nbsp;derived from &nbsp;salicin the natural product isolated from the bark of the &nbsp;willow tree&nbsp;Salix alba&nbsp;L.<\/p>\n<p>In this post you are required to:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PART A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use Google Scholar to search for publications related to the topic. You can use either <em>Plant based synthesis or Natural products Synthesis to start your search.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select a paper that is related to the Synthesis of a Natural product.<\/li>\n<li>Take &nbsp;some time reading the information provided and Indicate the name of the &nbsp;natural compound the natural resource for and the medicinal uses of the &nbsp;compound.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Use the name of the compound or the trade name to Search the chemical structure of this drug using MOLVIEW, &nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/molview.org\/\"><u>MolView<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li>take a screenshot of the chemical structure of your molecule and edit the image &nbsp;identifying and naming all functional groups.<\/li>\n<li>Show &nbsp;the total synthesis scheme (If available) and Circle or highlight the &nbsp;steps of the synthesis you are familiar with (If any).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>If available explain to us how many steps the synthesis involved and how long did it take the research group to make this drug.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NOTE: Please do not use Aspirin in your search.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PART B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Look at the video: Changing the drug pricing game<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ulADmDZ9hu8\"><u>https:\/\/youtu.be\/ulADmDZ9hu8<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Respond to the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is your stand regarding drug pricing &nbsp;and the solutions proposed by the author Dr.&nbsp;Peter Bach<\/li>\n<li>Do you think the price of drugs should be related with how difficult it is to be prepared?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many &nbsp;medicinal drugs come from natural resources such as plants, insects, &nbsp;corals, etc. One typical example is the synthesis of the commonly known &nbsp;as Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, acetylsalicylic acid &nbsp;(aspirin) &nbsp;derived from &nbsp;salicin the natural product isolated from the bark of the &nbsp;willow tree&nbsp;Salix alba&nbsp;L. In this post you are required to:&nbsp; PART A Use Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[275],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/3047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/3047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}