Including Marine Natural Products, Pheromones, Plant Hormones, and Aspects of Ecology Cumulative Indexes Organic natural products are the building blocks of life. Except for minerals and synthetic materials our surroundings consist entirely of organic natural products, either of prebiotic organic origins or from microbial, plant, or animal sources. These materials include polyketides, terpenoids, amino acids, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acid bases, RNA and DNA, etc. Natural products chemistry can be thought of as originating from mankind's curiosity about odor, taste, color, and cures for diseases. With the research that is being conducted to develop new drugs for the treatment of disease, there is intense interest in natural products as they are being used by many groups of people around the world, including natives in the depths of the rain forests and our own Native Americans.
Many books are being published, that provide new information about natural products.
This 9-volume Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry has brought together old and new insights on natural products chemistry. It is not a static publication. New research is constantly adding to the knowledge of natural products. The editors and contributors organized the multitude of facts in terms of Biosynthesis rather than structure. The work is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of natural products, nor is it intended that there should be any detail about biological activity.