Historical story on natural medicinal chemistry: The most preeminent natural organic chemist of 20th century-Robert Burns Woodward / 中草药

Robert Burns Woodward was a well-known natural organic chemist. This paper reviewed the work and his contribution to the development of natural product chemistry and total synthesis of natural products including spectroscopic methods such as UV, IR, and NMR, the Octant Rule, structure elucidation and total synthesis of natural products, theory study, biogenesis, et al. This is one of the series papers about historical story on natural medicinal chemistry, which was dedicated to Robert Burns Woodward on the occasion of his 100th birthday.