Chemical Society reviews

Biosynthesis and synthetic biology of psychoactive natural products.

Chemical Society reviews June 1, 2021 Cooper S Jamieson, Joshua Misa, Yi Tang et al.

Psychoactive natural products play an integral role in the modern world. The tremendous structural complexity displayed by such molecules confers diverse biological activities of significant medicinal value and sociocultural impact. Accordingly, in the last two centuries, immense effort has been devoted towards establishing how plants, animals, and fungi synthesize complex natural products from...