Medicinal Natural Products (PDF)

Medicinal Natural Products: A Biosynthetic Approach, ThirdEdition, provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction tonatural products from a biosynthetic perspective, focussing on themetabolic sequences leading to various classes of natural products.The book builds upon fundamental chemical principles and guides thereader through a wealth of diverse natural metabolites withparticular emphasis on those used in medicine.

There have been rapid advances in biosynthetic understandingover the past decade through enzymology, gene isolation and geneticengineering. Medicinal Natural Products has been extendedand fully updated in this new edition to reflect and explain thesedevelopments and other advances in the field. It retains theuser-friendly style and highly acclaimed features of previouseditions:
* a comprehensive treatment of plant, microbial, and animalnatural products in one volume
* extensive use of chemical schemes with annotated mechanisticexplanations
* cross-referencing to emphasize links and similarities
* boxed topics giving further details of medicinal materials,covering sources, production methods, use as drugs, semi-syntheticderivatives and synthetic analogues, and modes of action

Medicinal Natural Products: A Biosynthetic Approach, ThirdEdition, is an invaluable textbook for students of pharmacy,pharmacognosy, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry and naturalproducts chemistry.