Nature's Chemicals
The Natural Products that Shaped Our World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 December 2010
- ISBN 9780199603022
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 240x164x13 mm
- Weight 494 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 50 illustrations 0
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Short description:
This is the first monograph to describe Natural Products (NPs) as a group in an evolutionary context. It synthesizes a widely dispersed literature and provides a general picture of natural products encompassing evolution, history, ecology, and environmental issues, along with some deeper theory relevant to biochemistry.
MoreLong description:
Natural Products (NPs) is the term used to describe the hundreds of thousands of chemical compounds or substances that are continually produced by living organisms (plants and microbes). Hundreds of millions of tons of these chemicals are generated annually, and the trade in just a few of these has dominated human economic activity for thousands of years. Indeed the current world geopolitical map has been shaped by attempts to control the supply of a few of these compounds. Every day of our lives each human spends time and money trying to procure the NPs of their choice. However, despite their overwhelming influence on human culture, they remain poorly understood. Yet a knowledge of NPs can help in our search for new drugs, further the debate about GM manipulation, help us address environmental pollution, and enable a better understanding of drug trafficking.
Nature's Chemicals is the first book to describe Natural Products (NPs) in an evolutionary context, distilling the few simple principles that govern the way in which organisms (including humans) have evolved to produce, cope with, or respond to NPs. It neatly synthesizes a widely dispersed literature and provides a general picture of NPs, encompassing evolution, history, ecology, and environmental issues (along with some deeper theory relevant to biochemistry), with the goal of enabling a wider section of the scientific community to fully appreciate the crucial importance of Natural Products to human culture and future survival.
Thanks to a liberal supply of historical notes, personal and often sharply critical opinions and an enlivening ability to broaden the context, Richard Firn's book is thus something of a page-turner and one a latter day Sherlock Holmes might conceivably have written.
Table of Contents:
What are Natural Products?
The Importance of NPs in Human Affairs
The Main Classes of NPs - Only a Few Pathways Lead to the Majority of NPs
Are NPs Different from Synthetic Chemicals?
Why Do Organisms Make NPs?
NPs, Chemicals and the Environment
Natural Products and the Pharmaceutical Industry
The Chemical Interactions Between Organisms
The Evolution of Metabolism
The Genetic Modification of NP Pathways - Possible Opportunities and Possible Pitfalls
Notes
Index
