Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 The Classes of Natural Product
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Classes of Secondary Metabolites
1.3 Polyketides and Fatty Acids
1.4 Terpenes and Steroids
1.5 Phenylpropanoids
1 6 Alkaloids
1.7 Antibiotics Derived from Amino Acids
1.8 Vitamins
1.9 Chemical Ecology
1.10 The Isolation of a Natural Product
1 1 The Stages in Structure Elucidation
2 Characterization and etermination of
the Carbon Skeleton of a Natura Poduct
2.1 The Characterization of a Natural Product
2.2 Spectroscopic Characterization
2.3 Simple Chemical Derivatives
2.4 The Determination of the Carbon Skeleton
2.5 Spectroscopic Methods in the Determination
of the Carbon Skeleton
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Spectroscopic Interrelationships
3.3 Chemical Methods
3.4 The Determination of Absolute Steeochemistry
4 3 -nS i tipies of Structure S5lurit on
4 1 Santonn i
4.2 Griseofulvin
4.3 Penicillin and Clavulanic Acid
4.4 Prostaglandins
4.5 Vitamin C
5 iosyntheshs of Scondsiy Met oltes I S
5.1 Iintroduction
5.2 Biosynthetic Methodology
5.3 1The Pathway of Carbon into Biosynthesis
5.4 The Biosynthesis of Polyketides
5.5 Terpenoid Biosynthesis
5.6 The Biosynthesis of Phenylpropanoids
5.7 Alkaloid Biosynthesis
5.8 Other Natural Products Derived from Amino Acids
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