Table 5.

Examples of asymmetric carbons in natural products.

Molecules	Number of asymmetric carbons	(Number of possible isomers)	Reference
Bufadienolide	6	(64)	(Schwikkard et al., 2017)
3α,24-dihydroxylup-20(29)-en-28-oic acid	7	(128)	(Valencia-Chan et al., 2017)
Xylomexicanin I	7		(Wu et al., 2017)
Salvinorin A	7		(Yilmaz et al., 2017)
Sucupiranin A	8	(256)	(Endo et al., 2017)
17-nor-cephalotane-type diterpenoids	9	(512)	(Zhao et al., 2017)
Pharicin C	9		(Hu et al., 2018)
Scalaradial	9		(Starkus et al., 2017)
Oridonin	9		(Xu S. et al., 2017)
Xylorumphiin E	11	(1024)	(Waratchareeyakul et al., 2017)
Cimiricaside B	12	(2048)	(Thao et al., 2017)
Bistinospinoside A	15	(16384)	(Li et al., 2017e)