During the last few decades the area of natural products has advanced tremendously due to contributions from the fields of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Perfumery-flavours and Material Sciences. Natural Products: Chemistry and Applications provides an easy to read overview of natural products in fourteen chapters covering most of the aspects. Each chapter provides general introduction, nomenclature, occurrence, structure elucidation, synthesis, biological activity and commercial applications of natural products.

Preface / General Introduction / Steroids / Terpenoids / Fatty Lipids and Prostaglandins / Alkaloids / Amino Acids and Proteins / Nucleic Acids / Carbohydrates / Insect and Plant Growth Regulators / Phenolics, Natural Dyes and Pigments / Marine Natural Products / Antibacterials / Vitamins / Some Fascinating Synthesis of Natural Products / Enzyme Applications in Organic Synthesis / Further Reading / Subject Index.