3rd Editionby Paul M. Dewick (Author)
Medicinal Natural Products: A Biosynthetic Approach, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to natural products from a biosynthetic perspective, focussing on the metabolic sequences leading to various classes of natural products. The book builds upon fundamental chemical principles and guides the reader through a wealth of diverse natural metabolites with particular emphasis on those used in medicine.
There have been rapid advances in biosynthetic
understanding over the past decade through enzymology, gene isolation
and genetic engineering. Medicinal Natural Products has been
extended and fully updated in this new edition to reflect and explain
these developments and other advances in the field. It retains the
user-friendly style and highly acclaimed features of previous editions:
- a comprehensive treatment of plant, microbial, and animal natural products in one volume
- extensive use of chemical schemes with annotated mechanistic explanations
- cross-referencing to emphasize links and similarities
- boxed
topics giving further details of medicinal materials, covering sources,
production methods, use as drugs, semi-synthetic derivatives and
synthetic analogues, and modes of action
Medicinal Natural Products: A Biosynthetic Approach, Third Edition,
is an invaluable textbook for students of pharmacy, pharmacognosy,
medicinal chemistry, biochemistry and natural products chemistry.
