9783527315215
Modern alkaloids; structure, isolation, synthesis and biology.
Ed. by Ernesto Fattorusso and Orazio Taglialatela-Scafati.
Wiley-VCH
2008
665 pages
$225.00
Hardcover
QD421
This book presents important aspects of modern alkaloid chemistry.
Initially, the book concentrates on the structure and biology of
bioactive alkaloids, then goes on to analyze new trends in alkaloid
isolation and structure elucidation, and finally discusses the synthesis
and biosynthesis of alkaloids. Section I describes the structures and
biological activities of selected classes of terrestrial, marine, and
neurotoxic alkaloids. Section II gives an account of modern techniques
used for the detection and structural elucidation of alkaloids. Section
III is divided into two parts on different methods for alkaloid
synthesis and accounts of modern biosynthetic studies. The book will be
useful as a reference for biochemists, organic and medicinal chemists,
natural product chemists, pharmacologists, and those working in the
pharmaceutical industry. Fattorusso and Scafati are both professors of
organic chemistry at University of Naples "Federico II,"
Italy.
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