Chemical Diversity of Eremophila Species and Screening Library Generation

Abstract

This thesis explores two aspects of natural product (NP) chemistry. In part A, the use of NPs as scaffolds in the generation of screening libraries was explored as a valuable way to produce structurally diverse compounds with lead- or drug-like physicochemical parameters. Part B describes the chemical investigations of several species from the under-studied Australian endemic plant genus Eremophila, which was selected for examination as it had high potential to be a source of both new chemistry and of unique scaffolds for screening library production.