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Topics in the Biochemistry of Natural Products
Tony . Ed(S): Swain
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Paperback. Editor(s): Swain, Tony. Series: Recent Advances in Phytochemistry. Num Pages: 254 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 391.
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 variety of classes of these substances. With increasing knowledge, various speculations were put forward on the ways that these compounds were synthesised from pri mary metabolites and on their possible physiological, ecolo gical and taxonomic importance. These investigations sublimated in the late 1940's with the newly developed application of radioactively labelled precursors ... Read more
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 variety of classes of these substances. With increasing knowledge, various speculations were put forward on the ways that these compounds were synthesised from pri mary metabolites and on their possible physiological, ecolo gical and taxonomic importance. These investigations sublimated in the late 1940's with the newly developed application of radioactively labelled precursors ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Series
Recent Advances in Phytochemistry
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781475700992
SKU
V9781475700992
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