Main description:

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.

Contents:

- Molecular Models of Action of Cytotoxic Alkaloids From DNA Intercalation, Spindle Poisoning, Topoisomerase Inhibition to Apoptosis and Multiple Drug Resistance (M. Wink)
- Calystegines (S. Biastoff and B. Draeger)
- Recent Studies on the Synthesis of Strychnine (M. Shibasaki and T. Ohshima)
- Alkyl, Aryl, and Alkylarylquinoline and Related Alkaloids (M.F.G.F. da Silva, M.S. Soares, J.B. Fernandes, and P.C. Vieria)