The author describes his 60-year career in studying the chemistry of natural products, which includes structural, synthetic, and biosynthetic studies of natural products ranging from insect pigments, antibiotics, and fecal mutagens to taxol and other anticancer natural products as well as antimalarial natural products. One of the compounds discussed, napabucasin, is now an anticancer drug in phase III clinical trials.
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