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4 PYNE Department of Chemistry University of Wollongong Wollongong, New South Wales, 2522, Australia PROFESSOR MANFRED G. REINECKE Department of Chemistry, Texas Christian University, Forts Worth, TX 76129, USA PROFESSOR WILLIAM N. SETZER Department of Chemistry The University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35809, USA PROFESSOR YASUHIRO TEZUKA Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Hokuriku University Ho-3 Kanagawa-machi, Kanazawa 920-1181, Japan PROFESSOR DAVID E. THURSTON Institute of Pharmaceutical Science Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine King s College London, Britannia House 7 Trinity Street, London SE1 1DB, UK ADVISORY BOARD Prof. Viqar Uddin Ahmad Karachi, Pakistan Prof. Giovanni Appendino Novara, Italy Prof.

5 Yoshinori Asakawa Tokushima, Japan Prof. Roberto G. S. Berlinck S o Carlos, Brazil Prof. Anna R. Bilia Florence, Italy Prof. Maurizio Bruno Palermo, Italy Prof. C sar A. N. Catal n Tucum n, Argentina Prof. Josep Coll Barcelona, Spain Prof. Geoffrey Cordell Chicago, IL, USA Prof. Fatih Demirci Eski ehir, Turkey Prof. Ana Cristina Figueiredo Lisbon, Portugal Prof. Cristina Gracia-Viguera Murcia, Spain Dr. Christopher Gray Saint John, NB, Canada Prof. Dominique Guillaume Reims, France Prof. Duvvuru Gunasekar Tirupati, India Prof. Hisahiro Hagiwara Niigata, Japan Prof. Tsukasa Iwashina Tsukuba, Japan Prof. Leopold Jirovetz Vienna, Austria Prof. Vladimir I Kalinin Vladivostok, Russia Prof. Phan Van Kiem Hanoi, Vietnam Prof. Niel A.

6 Koorbanally Durban, South Africa Prof. Chiaki Kuroda Tokyo, Japan Prof. Hartmut Laatsch Gottingen, Germany Prof. Marie Lacaille-Dubois Dijon, France Prof. Shoei-Sheng Lee Taipei, Taiwan Prof. Imre Mathe Szeged, Hungary Prof. M. Soledade C. Pedras Saskatoon, Canada Prof. Luc Pieters Antwerp, Belgium Prof. Peter Proksch D sseldorf, Germany Prof. Phila Raharivelomanana Tahiti, French Polynesia Prof. Luca Rastrelli Fisciano, Italy Prof. Stefano Serra Milano, Italy Prof. Monique Simmonds Richmond, UK Dr. Bikram Singh Palampur, India Prof. John L. Sorensen Manitoba, Canada Prof. Johannes van Staden Scottsville, South Africa Prof. Valentin Stonik Vladivostok, Russia Prof. Winston F. Tinto Barbados, West Indies Prof. Sylvia Urban Melbourne, Australia Prof.

7 Karen Valant-Vetschera Vienna, Austria HONORARY EDITOR PROFESSOR GERALD BLUNDEN The School of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO1 2DT Natural Product Communications Vol. 10 (12) 2015 Published online ( ) Professor Feng-Peng Wang Editorial It is my privilege and pleasure to introduce this issue, which is dedicated to Professor Feng-Peng Wang, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, China, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The editors join me in paying tribute to Professor Wang for his outstanding contributions to Natural products chemistry and diterpenoid alkaloids in particular. He has published over 255 research papers, book chapters, reviews, and three books.

8 He is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of several journals including Journal of Asian Natural Products Research, Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, the Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines, and Natural Product Research and Development. I am extremely grateful for his contributions to Natural Product Communications from the very beginning. He has already published 16 articles in the journal, his first appearing in 2006 [Two new C18-diterpenoid alkaloids from Aconitum piepunense. Natural Product Communications , 1, 191-194.] and the most recent in 2015 [Recent advances in the synthesis of Stemona alkaloids. Natural Product Communications , 10, 1093-1102]. I am also looking forward to his further publications in NPC, as well as his continued support.

9 It is a great pleasure to honor the outstanding achievements of Professor Wang on the occasion of his 70th birthday and to send him warm wishes from all his colleagues and friends. Special thanks to Professor Geoffrey A. Cordell ( Natural Products Inc., Evanston, IL, USA) and Professor Qiao-Hong Chen (Department of Chemistry, California State University-Fresno, Fresno, CA, USA) for the preface. My thanks go to the authors and reviewers who have made this issue of Natural Product Communications possible. We all express our appreciation for Prof. Wang s excellent contributions to Natural products research and wish him all the best for his future. Pawan K. Agrawal Editor-in-Chief Natural Product Communications Vol. 10 (12) 2015 Published online ( ) Preface It is a very great pleasure and honor to be invited to write a Preface to this issue of Natural Product Communications in recognition of the 70th birthday and the scientific achievements of my dear friend and illustrious colleague Professor Feng-Peng Wang of the West China College of Pharmacy at Sichuan University in Chengdu.

10 He was born on May 11, 1945 in Changwu County, ShanXi Province. He received a degree in Pharmacy in 1969 from Sichuan Medical College, and was awarded a degree in 1981, and a degree in Medicinal Chemistry in 1984, from the Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. His supervisor was Dr. Qi-Cheng Fang and his supervisor was Academician Xiao-Tian Liang, himself a world-class Natural Product chemist and a pioneer in the field of Natural products in China. In 1985, Professor Wang travelled to the United States and worked for two years as a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Professor S. William Pelletier at the Natural Products Institute in the University of Georgia.