Chemistry of Plant Natural Products: Stereochemistry, Conformation, Synthesis, Biology, and Medicine (Hardcover, 2015)

Introduction: enzymes, cofactors/coenzymes, primary and secondary metabolites, natural products and their functions, plant chemical ecology, biosynthesis, metabolic pathways.- Fundamental Stereochemical Concepts and Nomenclatures.- Important Biological Events Occurring in Plants.- Natural Products Chemistry.- Biosynthesis of Terpenoids, The Oldest Natural Products.- Monoterpenoids (C10).- Sesquiterpenoids (C15).- Diterpenoids (C20).- Sesterpenoids (C25).- Triterpenes.- Steroids: Cholesterol and Other Phytosterols.- Carotenoids-GGPP Derived Polyisoprenoid (C40) Coloring Pigments.- Shikimic Acid Pathway.- Polyketide Pathway, Biosynthesis of Diverse Clases of Aromatic Compounds.- Alkaloids: General Introduction.- Hygrine, Hygroline and Cuscohygrine (Ornithine-Derived Alkaloids).- Coniine, Conhydrine and Pseudoconhydrine.- Nicotine.- Atropine [(±)-Hyoscyamine] and Cocaine.- Ephedrine and Pseudoephedrine.- Pilocarpine and Isopilocarpine.- Papaverine.- Morphine, Codeine, Thebaine.- Colchicine.- Quinine: Cinchona Alkalods.- Reserpine.- Strychnine, an Alkaloid with Heptacyclic Dense Molecular Scaffold.- Dimeric Indole Alkaloids:Vinblastine (Vincaleukoblastine), Vineristine (Leurocristine) and Their Derivatives.- Some More Alkaloids Having Diverse Skeletal Patterns.- Important Outcomes of Chemical Studies on Natural Products.- Chiral Recognition in Biological Systems and Natural Chiral Auxiliaries.- Natural Products in the Parlor of Pharmaceuticals.- Organic Phytonutrients and Their Functions.- Appendices.