Central and South America harbor some of the world biodiversity hotspots. Ethnopharmacology is also rich and widespread in native populations of Central and South American countries. Not surprisingly, research in the chemistry of natural products has flourished in many countries of Latin America, toward the discovery of new bioactive compounds and in chemical ecology, food and cosmetics chemistry, chemotaxonomy, methods development, and other branches of natural product sciences. This special virtual issue of the Journal of Natural Products assembles a series of articles published between the years 2018 and 2020. The selected papers highlight the chemistry of plants, marine organisms, macro-organism symbionts, and other microbes, new approaches for NMR analysis, pharmacology of natural compounds, chemometrics, and organic synthesis. Corresponding authors from diverse Central and South American countries published significant contributions in natural products, demonstrating the importance of rationally developing biological resources for science, the economy, and social development. We hope the readers of the Journal of Natural Products will appreciate this selection of articles published by researchers from Central and South American countries. This article has not yet been cited by other publications.

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中南美洲天然产物研究进展：一个虚拟问题

中美洲和南美洲拥有一些世界生物多样性热点。民族药理学在中美洲和南美洲国家的土著人口中也很丰富和广泛。毫不奇怪，天然产物的化学研究在拉丁美洲的许多国家蓬勃发展，以发现新的生物活性化合物以及化学生态学、食品和化妆品化学、化学分类学、方法开发和天然产物科学的其他分支。本期《天然产物杂志》的虚拟特刊汇集了 2018 年至 2020 年间发表的一系列文章。选定的论文重点介绍了植物、海洋生物、大型生物共生体和其他微生物的化学、核磁共振分析的新方法、天然化合物的药理学、化学计量学和有机合成. 来自不同中美洲和南美洲国家的通讯作者发表了对天然产物的重大贡献，证明了合理开发生物资源对科学、经济和社会发展的重要性。我们希望《天然产物杂志》的读者能够欣赏这些由中美洲和南美洲国家的研究人员发表的精选文章。这篇文章还没有被其他出版物引用。