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Part of the book series: Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products (POGRCHEM, volume 118)
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This volume consists of four chapters that cover a structurally diverse range of naturally occurring compounds. Chapter 1 delves into the chemistry of pyrogallols and their oxidized products, the hydroxy-o-quinones, including their role in cycloaddition reactions in the chemical synthesis of several fungal metabolites. Chapter 2 provides an in-depth description of the constituents of agarwood essential oil and smoke samples that are used in the perfumery industry, with an emphasis on the sesquiterpenoid and chromones constituents so far known. Chapter 3 discusses the defensive chemical ecology of two North American newt species that both produce tetrodotoxin, a well-known neurotoxin that causes paralysis and death in metazoans by disrupting electrical signals in the nerves and muscles. Chapter 4 discusses the limonoids and triterpenoids from the genus Walsura of the plant family Meliaceae, of which a number of species are utilized in several southeastern Asian countries in systems of folk medicine.
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Book Title: Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 118
Editors: A. Douglas Kinghorn, Heinz Falk, Simon Gibbons, Yoshinori Asakawa, Ji-Kai Liu, Verena M. Dirsch
Series Title: Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92030-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92029-6Published: 14 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92032-6Published: 15 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92030-2Published: 13 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2191-7043
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4309
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 177
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, general, Medicinal Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Biomedicine, general, Pharmacology/Toxicology