The Chemistry of Natural Products (2^nd Ed., Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 1993)

This book reviews in a concise and manageable way the progress in all key areas of natural products chemistry since 1984. The most significant advances are highlighted over a wide field of chemistry, structure, synthesis and biosynthesis. This book provides a unique and superb entry into the vast literature on the subject.

1 Carbohydrates.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Recent developments in O-glycosidation methodology.- 1.3 Recent developments in C-glycoside synthesis.- 1.4 Synthesis of antibiotic sugars.- 1.5 Use of carbohydrates as chiral templates and reagents for asymmetric synthesis.- 1.6 Use of carbohydrates as chiral starting materials for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure natural products.- References.- 2 Aromatic compounds.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Benzenoids.- 2.3 Coumarins.- 2.4 Isocoumarins, chromanones, chromones and cannabinoids.- 2.5 Macrocyclic lactones.- 2.6 Pyrones, butenolides, lignans and benzofurans.- 2.7 Terphenyls.- 2.8 Flavonoids.- 2.9 Xanthones and benzophenones.- 2.10 Naphthalenes and naphthoquinones.- 2.11 Anthraquinones.- 2.12 Anthracyclines.- 2.13 Some other polycyclic antibiotics.- 2.14 Ansamycins.- References.- 3 Terpenoids.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Monoterpenoids.- 3.3 Sesquiterpenoids.- 3.4 Diterpenoids.- 3.5 Sesterterpenoids.- 3.6 Triterpenoids.- 3.7 Carotenoids.- References.- 4 Steroids.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Molecular rearrangement.- 4.3 Remote functionalisation.- 4.4 Photochemical reactions.- 4.5 Partial synthesis.- References.- 5 Amino acids, peptides and proteins.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Amino acids.- 5.3 Peptides.- 5.4 Techniques for structural elucidation.- 5.5 Proteins.- 5.6 Appendix.- References.- 6 Alkaloids.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Biomimetic studies.- 6.3 Synthesis.- 6.4 Marine alkaloids.- References.- 7 Nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Nucleosides.- 7.3 Nucleotides.- 7.4 Nucleic acids.- 7.5 Supplementary reading.- References.- 8 Porphyrins.- 8.1 General introduction.- 8.2 Macrocycle biosynthesis.- 8.3 Haemoprotein model compounds.- 8.4 Porphyrins with easily oxidisable substituents.- 8.5 Utilisation of porphyrin excited states.- 8.6 Porphyrins in photodynamic therapy.- 8.7 DNA-porphyrin interactions.- 8.8 Porphyrins as novel materials.- 8.9 Porphyrins with liquid crystalline properties.- References.- 9 Aliphatic compounds.- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.2 Semiochemicals.- 9.3 Development of synthetic technology.- 9.4 Marine natural products.- 9.5 Enyne-allene and enediyne antibiotics.- References.- Chemical abbreviations and acronyms.

'The first editon of The Chemistry of Natural Products was published in 1985, and the various chapters then described progress in the ten years preceding 1982/3. This new edition covers the period between then and mid-1992, and in most respects it is a new book rather than a new edition of an existing test. Although the book has the same format as its predecessor, the detailed content and may of the authors of the individual chapters are different...Each chapter has a useful list of literature references. The book is well-produced and can be recommended as providing a varied, interesting, and useful account of progress in different aspects of natural product chemistry over the last ten years.'National Products Reports'This well written and presented book summarises much elegant chemistry which is accompanied by clearly drawn and well explained reaction schemes...it admirably achieves its purpose...'The Pharmaceutical Journal