title: Isocoumarins, miraculous natural products blessed with diverse pharmacological activities.
abstract: Isocoumarins are lactonic natural products abundant in microbes and higher plants. These are considered an amazing scaffold consecrated with more or less all types of pharmacological applications. This review is complementary to the earlier reviews and aims to focus the overlooked aspects of their fascinating chemistry with special emphasis on their classification and diverse biological activities with some SAR conclusions. The most recent available literature on the structural diversity and biological activity of these natural products has been reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan. Electronic address: aamersaeed@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Aamer
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saeed
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001688:Biological Products / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D049934:Isocoumarins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products; D049934:Isocoumarins
keywords: Biological activities; Classification; Isocoumarins; Natural products