This is a book about experiments and results of experiments. The results described are the fruit of thirty years' labour in the field of secondary metabolism. Secondary metabolism, more than any other part of the chemistry of life, has been the special preserve of organic chemists. Investiga- tion of secondary metabolism began with curiosity about the struc- tures of compounds isolated from natural sources, i.e. secondary metabolites. Coeval with structure determination there has been a curiosity about the origins and mechanism of formation of secondary metabolites (or natural products as...
This is a book about experiments and results of experiments. The results described are the fruit of thirty years' labour in the field of secondary met...
