The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Biology [Hardcover]

This series is world-renowned as the leading compilation of current reviews of this vast field. Internationally acclaimed for more than 40 years, The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Biology, founded by the late Professor R.H.F. Manske, continues to provide outstanding coverage of this rapidly expanding field. Each volume provides, through its distinguished authors, up-to-date and detailed coverage of particular classes or sources of alkaloids.

• Up-to-date reviews on a large and very important group of natural products from both a chemical and biological perspective
• Comprehensive dynamic reviews written by the leading authors in their respective fields
• Broader coverage than before on the biological aspects

- Molecular Models of Action of Cytotoxic Alkaloids From DNA Intercalation, Spindle Poisoning, Topoisomerase Inhibition to Apoptosis and Multiple Drug Resistance (M. Wink)
- Calystegines (S. Biastoff and B. Draeger)
- Recent Studies on the Synthesis of Strychnine (M. Shibasaki and T. Ohshima)
- Alkyl, Aryl, and Alkylarylquinoline and Related Alkaloids (M.F.G.F. da Silva, M.S. Soares, J.B. Fernandes, and P.C. Vieria)The next volume in this internationally-acclaimed series.

Professor Emeritus Geoffrey A. Cordell obtained his Ph.D. in synthetic natural product chemistry at the University of Manchester in 1970. After two years as a NATO postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemistry, M.I.T., he joined the College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). A Professor since 1980, he served as a Department Head for 12 years and as Interim Dean of the College of Pharmacy for almost three years, as well as holding several other senior academic and research administrative positions at the Department, College, and Campus levels. He was the Co-founder of the US - Thai Consortium for Pharmacy Education, which developedl£4