دانلود کتاب Medicinal Natural Products: A Biosynthetic Approach, 3rd Edition

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 natural products. 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. It retains the user-friendly style and highly acclaimed features of previous editions: a comprehensive treatment of plant, microbial, and animal natural products in one volumeContent: Chapter 1 About this Book, and How to Use It (pages 1–5): Chapter 2 Secondary Metabolism: The Building Blocks and Construction Mechanisms (pages 7–38): Chapter 3 The Acetate Pathway: Fatty Acids and Polyketides (pages 39–135): Chapter 4 The Shikimate Pathway: Aromatic Amino Acids and Phenylpropanoids (pages 137–186): Chapter 5 The Mevalonate and Methylerythritol Phosphate Pathways: Terpenoids and Steroids (pages 187–310): Chapter 6 Alkaloids (pages 311–420): Chapter 7 Peptides, Proteins, and Other Amino Acid Derivatives (pages 421–484): Chapter 8 Carbohydrates (pages 485–508):