**Meet the editors**

Editor Dr. Shagufta Perveen is an Associate Professor at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. She obtained her Ph.D. from the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Pakistan in 2009, and joined as an Assistant Professor at King Saud University then was promoted as an Associate Professor in 2014. She began her research on natural product isolation and structure

elucidation using different modern techniques. She has published more than sixty original papers and three chapters in different ISI listed journals. She has collaborated with many researchers in Japan, United Kingdom, United Stated, Pakistan and Italy. She is the editor and reviewer of many journals. Currently, her main line of research is related to bio-guided isolation of secondary metabolites from plants, marine and plants endophytes and fungus.

Editor Prof. Dr. Areej Mohammad Al-Taweel obtained her Ph.D. in the field of Pharmacognosy from King Saud University in 2007. She then joined the same university as an Assistant Professor and was then promoted as an Associate Professor in 2013. She continues her research on phytochemical investigation on different Saudi Arabian medicinal plants and has isolated many bioactive natural products and published more than 40 papers in ISI ranking journals.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Shagufta Perveen

Ahmed A. Hussein

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Terpenes and Terpenoids 1**

Chapter 2 **Chemistry of South African Lamiaceae: Structures and Biological Activity of Terpenoids 13**

Chapter 4 **Terpenes from Natural Products with Potential Anti-**

Chapter 5 **Recent Developments in Selected Sesquiterpenes: Molecular**

Shashikumar K. Paknikar and Kamlesh Pai Fondekar

Chapter 6 **Diterpenes from Different Fungal Sources and Their**

Heloisa Berti Gabriel, Rodrigo AC Sussmann, Emila A Kimura, Adriana Alejandra Marin Rodriguez, Ignasi Bofill Verdaguer, Gabriela Carolina Fernandes Leite and Alejandro Miguel Katzin

Roberto José Serrano Vega, Nimsi Campos Xolalpa, Angel Josabad Alonso Castro, Cuauhtémoc Pérez González, Julia Pérez Ramos and

**Rearrangements, Biosynthesis, and Structural Relationship**

Fozia Farhat, Arneeb Tariq, Annam Zikrea and Riffat Nasim Fatima

Chapter 3 **Terpenes as Potential Antimalarial Drugs 39**

**Inflammatory Activity 59**

Salud Pérez Gutiérrez

**among Congeners 87**

**13C-NMR Data 111**
