Natural Products Practical Textbook

This book presents the most important research results of natural products chemistry intended in manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients in drug industry. It covers basic principles of isolation, structure, characteristics, and the current research techniques of structural elucidation, spectroscopic analysis and chemical synthesis. These concepts are illustrated with examples from the author’s scientific experiments. This book is intended to be useful to the students pursuing a career in health sciences that requires a thorough knowledge and complete understanding of the preparation of drugs. This includes their rational isolation and synthesis of compounds and the grasp of the thinking that goes into drug design and development. The book will also be used both at the postgraduate training as well as doctoral programs in various pharmaceutical sciences such as medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutics.