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Anthra-, Benzo-, and Naphthoquinones

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Natural products represent important drugs since ancient times, nowadays as endless opportunities to find new compounds with pharmacological activities, a great number of new drugs are still derived from natural sources. Quinones and their derivatives have a fundamental role in several applications, i.e., pharmaceutical, medicinal, and food industries. Quinones represent a large class of compounds showing fascinating chemistry: they interact as electron transfer agents with biological targets by the formation of covalent bindings in redox reactions. Quinones constitute an important class of natural and synthetic compounds. A wide variety of synthetic quinones were prepared for develo** structures with pharmacological activities.

Their structure makes them interfere/udergo in chemical transformations. A great interest by the scientific community is given to quinone-based compounds for their challenging structural elements and potential therapeutic properties.

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Durazzo, A., Gabrielli, P., Lucarini, M. (2023). Anthra-, Benzo-, and Naphthoquinones. In: Carocho, M., Heleno, S.A., Barros, L. (eds) Natural Secondary Metabolites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18587-8_9

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