Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 106

• 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, 106
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Organic chemistry.; Medicinal chemistry.; Organic Chemistry.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.; Medicinal Chemistry.

The first contribution presents coumarins, the largest group of 1-benzopyran derivatives found in plants. Coumarin chemistry remains one of the major interest areas of phytochemists, especially because of their structural diversity and medicinal properties, along with the wide-ranging bioactivities...

Table of Contents:

• Naturally occurring Coumarins
• Human deiminases: isoforms, substrate specificities, kinetics, and detection
• Secondary metabolites from higher fungi.