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Natural Products - The Secondary Metabolites (Paperback)
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Natural Products - The Secondary Metabolites (Paperback)
Series: Tutorial Chemistry Texts, Volume 17
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Natural products are compounds that are produced by living systems
and the secondary metabolites are those which give particular
species their characteristic features. These natural products
include polyketides, terpenoids, phenylpropanoids, alkaloids and
antibiotics. The study of these natural products has played a major
part in the development of organic and medicinal chemistry and we
are now starting to understand the important ecological role that
these compounds have. The aim of this book is to describe the major
features of these compounds and the way in which chemical and
physical methods have been used to establish their structures and
then to show how these structures can be rationalised in
biosynthetic terms. The first chapter describes the classes of
natural product, their biological activity and isolation.
Subsequent chapters attempt to link chemical and spectroscopic
strategies in structure elucidation, contrasting the classical
chemical strategies that were used in the past with modern
spectroscopic methods. The final chapter describes the biosynthesis
of natural products. The elucidation of the structures of natural
products brings together many elements taught in courses on
functional group chemistry, stereochemistry and elementary
spectroscopy. This book will therefore be welcomed by lecturers and
students of second-year chemistry courses. Ideal for the needs of
undergraduate chemistry students, Tutorial Chemistry Texts is a
major series consisting of short, single topic or modular texts
concentrating on the fundamental areas of chemistry taught in
undergraduate science courses. Each book provides a concise account
of the basic principles underlying a given subject, embodying an
independent-learning philosophy and including worked examples.
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