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Circular dichroism has become the preferred chiroptical technique for structure determination of optically active natural and synthetic compounds and biopolymers. This monograph describes the state-of-the-art of circular dichroism, arguing that it is an extremely powerful but under-utilized technique. The text should interest research workers and graduate students in organic, inorganic and physical chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Hardbound. This volume covers the recent development of the research on fatty acid related compounds and polyketides and also the class of natural products which are not covered in the other volumes. Starting from the biosynthesis of fatty acids with normal and unusual cyclic alkyl starting unit structures, a large variety of compounds derived from fatty acids which have significant biological activities are described in the first part of this volume...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Collecting together aspects of the chemistry of natural products, this work was conceived as a source of the underlying general principles governing modern natural products physics. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Hardbound. This volume covers the dramatic advances which have been made in the lasttwo decades in the understanding of isoprenoid biosynthesis at thechemical, biochemical, and molecular genetic level. Tens of thousands ofisoprenoid metabolites - from pinenes to cholesterol, from ubiquinone tocarotene, from phytols to prenylated proteins, from dolichols togibberellins - have been isolated from essentially all forms of life, including prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and archaebacteria: from Escherichiacoli to mammals, from extremophiles and fungi to marine and terrestrialplants...read more

Product Description: Hardbound. This 19-chapter volume summarizes the current status of our understanding of RNA, with particular emphasis on the chemistry of this key biological molecule. The various RNAs covered are messenger RNA, ribosomal RNA, transfer RNA and RNA enzymes (ribozymes)...read more

Product Description: Hardbound. This volume is intended to cover the chemistry of one of the most widely studied and important natural products, DNA. Discussed in detail are physicochemical properties of the molecule itself as well as small-molecule natural products that are known to interact with it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Hardbound. This volume covers the exciting advances made in the chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology of amino acid, peptide and alkaloid biosynthesis. The fourteen chapters in this volume briefly introduce classical approaches to deciphering biosynthetic pathways, but largely focus on a synergistic approach, i...read more

Product Description: Hardbound. This volume, containing 20 chapters, focuses on the biosynthesis of the different classes of carbohydrates and their derivatives. The first part of this volume concentrates on the three classes of glycan-bearing molecules that mediate bio-recognition events, namely, glycoproteins, glycolipids, and glycosaminoglycans...read more

Product Description: Hardbound. This volume describes the dramatic advances in studies of the structure and function of enzymes which have led to an understanding of the rich chemistry used by nature to construct molecules and how the enzymes of natural products biosynthesis catalyze these reactions...read more

Product Description: Hardbound. Volume 8 summarizes the chemistry of various biofunctional molecules and bioactive natural products of both terrestrial and marine origin. In accord with the recent trend of research in this area, ecological significance of bioactive natural products is emphasized throughout the volume...read more

For the effective usage of infrared spectroscopy in qualitative problems, it is important to become acquainted with the appearance as well as the range of absorption of the various characteristic absorption bands. The simplest way to achieve this is naturally to become familiar with actual curves. This book is set up as follows to accomplish this purpose. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Koji Nakanishi's free thinking and exuberant personality is illustrated in the style of his science and in the philosophies expressed in his stories. Nakanishi has contributed significantly to the development of various spectroscopic methods in organic chemistry, and has been a pioneer in the elucidation of structure and mechanisms in complex, unstable, and biologically active natural products...read more