Studies in Natural Products Chemistry [Hardcover]

Natural products in the plant and animal kingdom offer a huge diversity of chemical structures that are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been modulated over the millennia through genetic effects. With the rapid developments in spectroscopic techniques and accompanying advances in high-throughput screening techniques, it has become possible to isolate and then determine the structures and biological activity of natural products rapidly, thus opening up exciting opportunities in the field of new drug development to the pharmaceutical industry.

The series also covers the synthesis or testing and recording of the medicinal properties of natural products, providing cutting edge accounts of the fascinating developments in the isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis, biosynthesis and pharmacology of a diverse array of bioactive natural products.

• Focuses on the chemistry of bioactive natural products
• Contains contributions by leading authorities in the field
• Presents sources of new pharmacophores

1. Terpenoids and Sterols from Mushrooms, Yasunori Yaoita, Masao Kikuchi and Koichi Machida?
2. From Bench to Bed Side: Natural Products and Analogues for the Treatment of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), Simone Kobe De Oliveira, Louise Domeneghini,?Chiaradia-Delatorre, Alessandra Mascarello, Beatriz Veleirinho, Fernanda Ramlov, Shirley Kuhnen, Rosendo Augusto Yunes and Marcelo Maraschin
3. Febrifugine and Its Analogues: Studies for Their Anti-Malarial and Other Therapeutic Properties, Sanjoy Singh Ningthoujam, Anupam Das Talukdar, Deepa Nath, Norazah Basar, Kumar Singh Potsangbam and Manabendra Dutta Choudhury
4. Macrocyclic N-Methylated Cyclic Peptides and Depsipeptides, Rani Maharani, Brad E. Sleebs and Andrew B. Hughes?