The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Biology

This series is world-renowned as the leading compilation of current reviews of this vast field. Internationally acclaimed for more than 40 years, The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Biology, founded by the late Professor R.H.F. Manske, continues to provide outstanding coverage of this rapidly expanding field. Each volume provides, through its distinguished authors, up-to-date and detailed coverage of particular classes or sources of alkaloids.

Up-to-date reviews on a large and very important group of natural products from both a chemical and biological perspectiveComprehensive, dynamic reviews written by leading authors in the respective fieldsBroad coverage on the biological aspects

THE C₁₉-DITERPENOID ALKALOIDS

-Feng-Peng Wang & Qiao-Hong Chen

1. Introduction
2. Classification, distribution, and occurrence
3. Biosynthesis and biogenesis
4. Chemotaxonomy of Chinese Aconitum L. (Ranunculaceae)
5. Spectral and Crystallographic Properties
6. Chemical reactions and conversional synthesis
7. Pharmacological activity