Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 105

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kinghorn, A. Douglas (Editor), Falk, Heinz (Editor), Gibbons, Simon (Editor), Kobayashi, Jun'ichi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products, 105
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Organic chemistry.; Medicinal chemistry.; Organic Chemistry.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.; Medicinal Chemistry.

The first contribution reviews the occurrence of xanthine alkaloids in the plant kingdom and the elucidation of the caffeine biosynthesis pathway, providing details of the N-methyltransferases, belonging to the motif B' methyltransferase family which catalyze three steps in the four step pathwa...

Table of Contents:

• Xanthine Alkaloids: occurrence, biosynthesis, and function in plants
• The Iboga Alkaloids
• A critical evaluation of the quality of published 13C-NMR-Data in natural product chemistry.