Medicinal Natural Products

<i>Medicinal Natural Products: A Biosynthetic Approach, Third Edition</i>, 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. <p>There have been rapid advances in biosynthetic understanding over the past decade through enzymology, gene isolation and genetic engineering. <i>Medicinal Natural Products</i> 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:</p> <ul> <li> <div>a comprehensive treatment of plant, microbial, and animal natural products in one volume</div> </li> <li> <div>extensive use of chemical schemes with annotated mechanistic explanations</div> </li> <li> <div>cross-referencing to emphasize links and similarities</div> </li> <li> <div>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</div> </li> </ul> <p><i>Medicinal Natural Products: A Biosynthetic Approach, Third Edition,</i> is an invaluable textbook for students of pharmacy, pharmacognosy, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry and natural products chemistry.</p>