Diverse structural types of natural products and their mimics have served as targets of opportunity in our laboratory to inspire the discovery and development of new methods and strategies to assemble polyfunctional and polycyclic molecular architectures. Furthermore, our efforts toward identifying novel compounds having useful biological properties led to the creation of new targets, many of w...

Commercial application of many promising heterocyclic natural products is limited by their natural abundance. While organic synthesis provides access to many natural products, total synthesis of numerous complex molecules is not economically feasible. In recent years, the combination of fermentation and organic synthesis has provided a new route for the production of complex heterocycles that a...

Customer trust is the important case which is needed by company where this behaviour will determine to customer buying interest, especially for organic products that have different characteristic from common products. Actually, this product has not developed rapidly in Indonesia. Reviews from those phenomenon, so it is conducted the research on mediating impact of retail image as organic produc...

The concept of flow "fine" synthesis, that is, high yielding and selective organic synthesis by flow methods, is described. Some examples of flow "fine" synthesis of natural products and APIs are discussed. Flow methods have several advantages over batch methods in terms of environmental compatibility, efficiency, and safety. However, synthesis by flow methods is more difficult than synthesis b...

The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could potentially contribute towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Among these, organic products and fair-trade products are among the rapidly growing “ethical trade” products. T...

Worldwide, the demand for organic food products appears to have expanded quickly in recent years, stimulated by consumer perceptions that organic products are safe, clean and ethical. The growth rate was estimated to be around 10-20 per cent per annum in the next few years, with sales reaching $US 29-31 billion in 2005. The biggest growth in consumption has occurred in developed countries, such...

The growth of the organic foods industry in the United States has been dramatic in the past 2 decades. It is estimated that organic sales have increased by nearly 20% annually since 1990, with consumer sales reaching $13.8 billion in 2005 (Figure 1). While initial organic food production primarily involved small farms and local distribution of fresh produce, today’s organic food system is a com...

Modern natural products chemistry-in terms of isolation, structure elucidation, determination of relative and absolute configuration, and finally chemical or biological synthesis-covers more facets of organic chemistry than any other single area of this science. The remarkable progress which has been achieved in this field during the past twenty years can be ascribed, to a considerable extent, ...

A significant interest in organic tree fruit production has developed over the last 10 to 15 years. Total US sales of organic food and beverages were estimated at $9.0 to $9.5 billion for 2001, representing between one and two percent of total US food and beverage sales. Although the percentage is small, growth rates for organic products are 10 to 20 percent per year, well above growth rates fo...

Consumer acceptance and willingness to pay for three nonconventional attributes associated with six processed blueberry products was examined through an in-store conjoint experiment survey. Both credence and experience attributes were considered, including whether the products were produced locally, and whether they were organic or sugar-free. The results indicate heterogeneity in consumer pref...