5 Marine natural products
Abstract
This review covers the literature on marine natural products published in 2002. As in previous years there has been enormous interest in the structure elucidation, synthesis, activity and ecology of marine natural products. Marine sources produce compounds of new structural types with an intriguing array of biological activities. Sponges are the commonest organisms to be studied, however, algae, bacteria and fungi have been far from neglected. The bioactivity-guided