Mehdi A. Beniddir, Nadja B. Cech, Roger Linington and Neha Garg introduce the Natural Product Reports themed issue on Mass spectrometry metabolomics in natural products research.

Covering: primarily from 2021 to the end of 2025 l-Tyrosine (l-Tyr) and its derivatives are high-value aromatic compounds with broad applications in food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. The…

Covering: This review covers literature from 2015 to present.It is widely recognised that there is a significant gap between bacterial natural product potential and detected/described products. As suc...

Covering literature to September 2025 This review provides a comprehensive account of the 217 natural product inspired antibiotics that have been approved for human use from 1943 through to September…

Covering: up to 2025 Modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) are often described as molecular-scale assembly lines – a moniker that implies a high-degree of coordinated and regulated activity. Belying…

Covering: up to 2026 The Stachybotrys fungi have proven to be rich sources of triprenyl meroterpenoids. In addition to natural products typified by the relatively well known K76, stachybotrin,…

Covering: up to 2025 Aromatic compounds have been widely applied in the production of plastics, pharmaceuticals, dyes, fragrances and cosmetics. Since conventional chemical synthesis of aromatic…

Covering: 1980 up to 2025. Quinic acid became a versatile, accessible chiral building block for asymmetric synthesis, offering a functionalized, stereochemically rich scaffold that enables the…