MEDICINAL NATURAL PRODUCTS - A BIOSYNTHETIC APPROACH

'Medicinal Natural Products - A Biosynthetic Approach', Third Edition, provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to natural products from a biosynthetic perspective, focussing on the metabolic sequences leading to various classes of naturalproducts. The book builds upon fundamental chemical principles and guides the reader through a wealth of diverse natural metabolites with particular emphasis on those used in medicine.
There have been rapid advances in biosynthetic understanding over the past decade through enzymology, gene isolation and genetic engineering. 'Medicinal Natural Products' has been extended and fully updated in this new edition to reflect and explain these developments and other advances in the field.