Microbial transformations of artemisinin – anti-malaria drug

• Main Authors: Omar, Muhammad Nor, Khan, Naik T., Hasali, Nor Hazwani, Moin, Syed Faraz, Alfarra, Helmi Yousif
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Society of Education, India 2012
• Subjects: QD Chemistry
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/36505/1/Microbial_Transformation_of_artemisinin_-_ABR.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/36505/; http://www.soeagra.com/abr_current.html

In recent years, artemisinin (1) has remained an effective drug to treat malaria. Numerous approaches have been adapted to increase the efficacy of (1) against antibiotic resistant malarial parasite. Microbial biotransformation of (1) has been used recently to produce promising derivatives of (1)...