Chemical Diversity, Pharmacology, Synthesis and Detection of Naturally Occurring Peroxides.

Natural occurring peroxides are interesting bioprospecting targets due to their molecular structural diversity and the wide range of pharmacological activities. In this systematic review, a total of 123 peroxide compounds were analysed from 99 published papers with the compounds distributed in 31 plants, 18 animals and 41 microorganisms living in land and water ecosystems. The peroxide moiety exists as both cyclic and acyclic entities and can include 1,2-dioxolanes, 1,2-dioxane rings and common secondary metabolites with a peroxo group.