Natural Products: A Practical Manual

The study of natural products has always been the starting point of the discipline of Chemistry in every country of the globe, in view of the importance of the organic compounds in agriculture, medicine and industry. Every student of chemistry today feels the need to acquire further knowledge in this field. Each chapter includes a general introduction and method of isolation, degradation and applications of chromatographic procedures. The introduction in each chapter is brief and attempts only to supply or recall knowledge in the particular field. The student, who does not always find the time to read the relevant books or reviews, will find, in this introduction, the required material in a concentrated form. Each experiment is described under the following headings : Introduction, principle, materials, procedures and chemical tests (often including spectral data) This laboratory manual is designed to meet the needs in laboratory experiments for natural products, and phyto chemistry, as such, this book will be considered by faculty, undergraduates and postgraduates of pharmacy courses of various universities.