Advances In Natural Product Chemistry

Atta-ur-Rahman is director of the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Pakistan. He is well known in the field of natural product chemistry - recent research includes isolation and structure elucidation of new natural products. Atta-ur-Rahman is co-editor in chief of the journal Natural Product Letters.

• Preface, Foreword, The Invention of Chemical Reactions, Asymmetric Allylic Alkylations as a Strategy for Synthesis of Natural Products, Studies Directed toward the Synthesis of the Type A Streptogramin Antibiotics, Organic Transformations Involving Organocobalt: Mechanisms and Synthesis, Glycoconjugates: The Importance of Chemistry in an Area of Active Research, Synthesis of Putative Epoxyestrenone Intermediates in the Metabolism of Estradiol, Cyclic Phosphates in Syntheses of Nucleotides, Phospholipids and Related Compounds, Epoxy Sugars as Intermediates in Carbohydrate Syntheses, Expeditious Approaches to Poly substituted Tetrahydrofurans, Butanolides and Cyclopropanes Bearing Functionalized Substituents, New Stereoselective Syntheses of Chiral Pyrethroid Insecticides, Recent Results in the Synthesis of Brassinolide and Related Compounds, Regioselectivity in the Reactions of Methoxy Dehydrobenzenes with Furans, Biomimetic Synthesis of Lupine and Nitraria Alkaloids, Synthetic Studies in the Alkaloid Field. Unexpected Reactions, Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationship of 3-Arylalkylbenzisoindolines: Novel Potential Antidepressants, Strategies for the Production of Vinblastine, Synthetic and Biosynthetic Studies on Bioactive Microbial Metabolites, Structure, Biogenesis and Mode of Action of Pyoverdins, Bioassay-directed Discovery of Natural Product Leads. Antibacterials and Anti-fungals from Unusual Sources, Selective Screening of Natural Products: A Resource for the Discovery of Novel Antimalarial Compounds, X-ray Diffraction Studies on Novel Natural Products, Diterpenoids from Salvia Species and their Pharmacological Activities, Studies in the Chemical Constituents of Some Medicinally Significant Plants, Alkaloids from Some Turkish Amaryllidaceae Plants, NMR Assignments and Molecular Modeling - Approaches to Structures and Conformational Analysis of Natural Products, Active Constituents of Turkish Inula Species, New Compounds from Seaweeds and Higher Plants, The Use of Modern NMR Techniques in Structure Elucidation of New Natural Products, Subject Index