Selected topics in the chemistry of natural products / edited by Raphael Ikan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. The origin and the nature of natural products / Raphael Ikan -- ch. 2. Plant-derived natural products in drug discovey and development: an overview / Mark Bahar [and others] -- ch. 3. Plant and brain cannabinoids: the chemistry of major new players in physiology / Lumir Hanuš and Raphael Mechoulam -- ch. 4. Natural products as biomarker tracers in environmental and geological processes / Bernd R.T. Simoneit -- ch. 5. Toxins of marine invertebrates and microorganisms / Yoel Kashman and Yehuda Benayahu -- ch. 6. Enantiomeric distribution of odorous oxygenated monoterpenes in aromatic plants / Uzi Ravid -- ch. 7. Recent trends of some natural sweet substances from plants / Bernard Crammer -- ch. 8. Natural products for pest management / Stephen O. Duke [and others] -- ch. 9. Natural products in mycelial microorganisms: impact of morphology / Sergei Braun -- ch. 10. Recent advances in the chemistry of insect pheromones / Mangesh J. Goundalkar and Francis X. Webster -- ch. 11. Nature derived antibiotics / Srinivas Kodali and Jun Wang -- ch. 12. Natural products and related compounds of realized and potential use in treating neurodegenerative disease / Peter J. Houghton and Melanie-Jayne Howes -- ch. 13. Phytotoxic compounds with calmodulin inhibitor properties from selected Mexican fungi and plants / Rachel Mata, Sergio-Martínez Luis and.

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Contains specialized work that describes the chemistry of separate classes of compounds such as steroids, terpenes, alkaloids, sugars, carotenoids, fatty acids and so on. This work covers the following topics of natural products: cannabinoids, toxic constituents from marine sources, natural sweeteners, generation of wines, and more.

English.

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