The present volume is the first of two planned to provide state-of-the-art expert reviews of central topics in modern natural products chemistry and secondary metabolism. Many scientists not directly involved in these areas still view the field of natural products as focused primarily on the isolation, structure elucidation, and cataloging of new compounds (i. e. grind and find ), or on their chemical synthesis. However, two revolutions in experimental techniques since the early 1950 s have completely transformed the understanding of chemical and biological relationships between highly...