Preface: Natural products chemistry has a long history, and could be regarded as having its
roots in the use of many kinds of herbal mixtures as crude drugs in traditional medicine …

The drug discovery process increasingly requires the availability of large numbers of
compounds. Chemodiversity in nature offers a valuable source; for example, secondary …

Modern societies have relied for more than a century on fossil carbon sources for the
production of fuels or chemicals ranging from plastic polymers to drugs to food additives …

Notoriously cumbersome to isolate and challenging to synthesize, the path of natural
products to viable drugs is an arduous journey. Yet compounds isolated from nature may …

Nature is a rich source of compounds exhibiting biological activity against weeds, plant
diseases, insects and mites. Many of these natural products have complex structures …

Metabolic studies have arguably been conducted since the 13th century with Ibn al-Nafis
stating that" the body and its parts are in a continuous state of dissolution and nourishment …

Abstract The Discovery of Medicines from Plants: A Current Biological Perspective. The last
50 years have seen tremendous innovations in the process of discovering novel bioactive …

Plants synthesize a multitude of compounds that contribute to adaptation to their ecological
niches. Such compounds serve as attractants of other living organisms beneficial to the …

A vast array of natural organic compounds, the products of primary and secondary
metabolism, occur in plants. This dictionary provides basic information, including structural …