Medicinal Natural Products: A Biosynthetic Approach, 3rd EditionISBN: 978-0-470-74167-2
Paperback
552 pages
March 2009
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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- Provides a comprehensive treatment of plant, microbial, and animal natural products in one volume
- Students’ skills in deductive reasoning are developed by emphasizing the relationships between classes of natural products rather than the more traditional descriptive approach
- Extensive further reading suggestions at the end of each chapter
- 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
- Extensive use of chemical schemes with annotated mechanistic explanations
- Includes cross-referencing to emphasize links and similarities