Bioactive Compounds from Natural Sources

This book focuses on the modern approach to the isolation of biologically active natural products and provides numerous examples of the isolation and characterization of secondary metabolites. It emphasizes the synthetic or semi-synthetic analogues of natural products, relevant to those working on biomedical applications of natural products. It includes chapters on general methods together with more specific chapters discussing the main topics in the field, including important families or properties of bioactive natural products, synthesis of analogues, biological evaluation of both natural and synthetic products, and structure-activity relationship studies.