Dewick Paul M. (University Of Nottingham Uk) - Medicinal Natural Products A Biosynthetic Approach - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Medicinal Natural Products A Biosynthetic Approach
Author(s): Dewick Paul M. (University Of Nottingham Uk)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Barcode: 9780470741672
Pages: 552 Pages
Publication Date: 3/1/2009
Category: Pharmaceutical Technology