TY - BOOK AU - Ikan,Raphael TI - Selected topics in the chemistry of natural products SN - 9812705694 AV - QD415 .S45 2008 PY - 2008///] CY - Singapore, Hackensack, N.J. PB - World Scientific KW - Natural products KW - Synthesis KW - Life KW - Origin KW - Chemistry, Organic N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; -- The origin and the nature of natural products; -- Plant-derived natural products in drug discovery and development: an overview; -- Plant and brain cannabinoids: the chemistry of major new players in physiology; -- Natural products as biomarker tracers in environmental and geological processes; -- Toxins of marine invertebrates and microorganisms; -- Enantiomeric distribution of odorous oxygenated monoterpenes in aromatic plants; -- Recent trends of some natural sweet substances from plants; -- Natural products for pest management; -- Natural products in mycelial microorganisms: impact of morphology; -- Recent advances in the chemistry of insect pheromones; -- Nature derived antibiotics; -- Natural products and related compounds of realized and potential use in treating neurodegenerative disease; -- Phytotoxic compounds with calmodulin inhibitor properties from selected Mexican fungi and plants; -- Potential anticancer natural products from plant-associated fungi; -- Plant fungal endophytes: interactions, metabolites and biosyntheses ER -