Viburnum species are a group of small trees or shrubs that are of great ornamental and medicinal values. Some of them have been used for a long time both as conventional and ethnic medicine. Viburnum fruits, eaten in fresh and processed forms, have been revealed to contain various health‐promoting nutrients. With the increasing research on Viburnum plants, they are considered to be an abundant resource of bioactive natural products possessing diverse pharmacological properties and unique chemical structures, that is powerfully proved by the existence of structurally novel vibsane‐type diterpenoids which only occur in Viburnum species, newly discovered lignan constituents with unusual side chains and other noteworthy natural components. This review describes 185 new and 228 known secondary metabolites from Viburnum genus between 2008 and 2020, including their chemical structures, sources and bioactivities, and highlights the corresponding structure‐activity relationships.

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The efficient and concise synthesis of cytotoxic 5, 6-dihydro-α-pyrone (+)-brevipolide H has been accomplished in 12 long linear steps with 8.65% overall yield from readily available chiral synthons, D-galactal and L-ethyl lactate. The features of this synthesis are highly diastereoselective Simmons-Smith cyclopropanation and carbohydrate-based chiron approach to rapid access to key 5, 6-dihydro-α-pyrone skeleton.