The Role of Natural Products in Drug Discovery

Natural Products have been important sources of useful drugs from prehistoric times to the present. This book gives an overview about this field and provides important recent contributions to the discovery of new drugs generated by research on natural products. Total synthesis of natural products wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mulzer, J. (Editor), Bohlmann, R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2000, 2000
Edition:1st ed. 2000
Series:Ernst Schering Foundation Symposium Proceedings
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Synthesis of Immunomodulatory Marine Natural Products
  • 2 The Pederin Family of Antitumor Agents: Structures, Synthesis and Biological Activity
  • 3 Biotherapeutic Potential and Synthesis of Okadaic Acid
  • 4 Total Synthesis of Marine Natural Products Driven by Novel Structure, Potent Biological Activity, and/or Synthetic Methodology
  • 5 Total Synthesis of Antifungal Natural Products
  • 6 Combinatorial Methods to Engineer Small Molecules for Functional Genomics
  • 7 Natural Products in Drug Discovery
  • 8 Tools for Drug Discovery: Natural-product-based Libraries
  • 9 Genetic Selection as a Tool in Mechanistic Enzymology and Protein Design
  • 10 The Biotechnological Exploitation of Medicinal Plants
  • 11 Multifunctional Asymmetric Catalysis
  • 12 New Directions in Immunopharmacotherapy
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