Biodiversity. New Leads for the Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Industries
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Author(s): S. K. Wright et al. (Eds)
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN: 0854048308
Format: hardback
313pp
Price: £59.50
Review Date: 04 January 2001
Review: This book is based on the conference held in 1999 in St Andrews, Scotland - the chapters are lectures given by senior scientists from major pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies, as well as from academic and government laboratories throughout the world. The scope of the conference had been widened to include substances derived from microbial, marine and plant sources. Advances in genetic engineering, high-throughput screening and structure elucidation have also opened up new avenues of exploration. Competitive pressure from the field of combinatorial chemistry has expedited new approaches to natural product analysis and stimulated debate on the industrial use of natural products. The chapters are presented under six headings: natural products – history, diversity and discovery; microbial natural products discovery; marine natural products; plant natural products; biosynthesis; and natural products as leads for synthesis.