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Natural products chemistry -- the chemistry of metabolite products
of plants, animals and microorganisms -- is involved in the
investigation of biological phenomena ranging from drug mechanisms
to gametophytes and receptors and drug metabolism in the human body
to protein and enzyme chemistry. Introduction to Natural Products
Chemistry has collected the most important research results of
natural product chemistry in China. It overviews the basic
principles of isolation, structure, and characteristics of natural
products and illustrates current research techniques of structure
elucidation with real-life examples of wet chemistry and
spectroscopic analyses (UV, IR, MS and NMR, especially 2d-NMR, HMBC
and HMQC), bioactivity, biosynthesis, and chemical synthesis.
Specifically, this book covers: * Extraction and isolation of
natural products * Chemistry of fungal products * Alkaloids,
sesquiterpenoids, diterpenes and saponins * Amino acids and
peptides * Flavonoids, anthraquinones, coumarins and lignansa *
Marine natural products * Structural modification of active
principles from traditional * Chinese medicine * Chemical synthesis
of natural products Although natural products chemistry has
produced enormous results and made great contributions to human
health, industry, and agriculture, only a fraction of natural
resources have been rigorously studied. Chinese natural products
are a gold mine for further exploration with modern technology and
methods. This book represents the continuing collaboration between
the fields of natural products chemistry, medicine, biology, and
agriculture which will continue to discover and implement novel
chemical products from natural sources.
This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short
essays, or hsiao-p'in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century Chinese writers. Hsiao-p'in, characterized by
spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on
the established classical prose style in which all scholars were
trained. Written primarily to amuse and entertain the reader,
hsiao-p'in reflect the rise of individualism in the late Ming
period and collectively provide a panorama of the colorful life of
the age. Critics condemned the genre as escapist because of its
focus on life's sensual pleasures and triviality, and over the next
two centuries many of these playful and often irreverent works were
officially censored. Today, the essays provide valuable and rare
accounts of the details over everyday life in Ming China as well as
displays of wit and delightful turns of phrase. The open access
publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the
James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.
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