the lignan handbook

ISBN-13: 9781498752190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 1030 str.

Norman G. Lewis; Laurence B. Davin

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Lignans are aromatic compounds isolated from plants. This handbook presents an authoritative and comprehensive review of lignan chemistry, biochemistry, nomenclature, uses, and occurrence. Lignans are used in a wide variety of industries and this book will appeal to those working in the pulp and paper industries, renewable energy, specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, flavours and fragrances, agriculture and forestry, evolution and ecology. Additionally the book features a comprehensive lignans dictionary section, drawn from the prestigious Dictionary of Natural Products.