Topics in the Biochemistry of Natural Products

The study of plant natural products can be considered to have started in 1806 when Serturner isolated the first of these compounds, morphine, from the opium poppy. Over the next 150 years, numerous elegant and powerful techniques were developed for the isolation and structural identifi­ cation of a...

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Other Authors: Swain, Tony (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1979, 1979
Edition:1st ed. 1979
Series:Recent Advances in Phytochemistry
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Stereochemistry of Enzyme Action
  • 1 Are the Steric Courses of Enzymatic Reactions Informative About Their Mechanisms?
  • 2 Stereochemical Studies on the Metabolism of Amino Acids
  • Alkaloids
  • 3 Biosynthesis of the Cephalotaxus Alkaloids
  • 4 Enzymology of Indole Alkaloid Biosynthesis
  • Terpenoids
  • 5 From Terpenes to Sterols: Macroevolution and Microevolution
  • 6 Regulation of Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Higher Plants
  • Marine Natural Products
  • 7 Compounds from Microalgae — Their Influence on the Field of Marine Natural Products
  • 8 Molecular Aspects of Halogen-Based Biosynthesis of Marine Natural Products