This section of the article provides an overview of Volume 8 of the "Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry" series, edited by Kenji Mori from the Science University of Tokyo, Japan. The volume focuses on miscellaneous natural products, including marine natural products, pheromones, plant hormones, and aspects of ecology. It includes contributions from various experts in the field, covering topics such as plant hormones, plant chemical ecology, pheromones, insect hormones and chemical ecology, microbial hormones and chemical ecology, and marine natural products and marine chemical ecology. The volume also features an introduction, preface, obituary notice for Sir Derek Barton, a list of contributors, abbreviations, and indices.This section of the article provides an overview of Volume 8 of the "Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry" series, edited by Kenji Mori from the Science University of Tokyo, Japan. The volume focuses on miscellaneous natural products, including marine natural products, pheromones, plant hormones, and aspects of ecology. It includes contributions from various experts in the field, covering topics such as plant hormones, plant chemical ecology, pheromones, insect hormones and chemical ecology, microbial hormones and chemical ecology, and marine natural products and marine chemical ecology. The volume also features an introduction, preface, obituary notice for Sir Derek Barton, a list of contributors, abbreviations, and indices.