New Trends in Natural Product

Based on presentations made during the 6th International Symposium on Natural Product Chemistry, this book is divided into two sections.Section A has articles on synthetic routes developed to complex natural products, whilst Section B is a compilation of discoveries of new natural products and their pharmacological properties.There are several chapters in this volume devoted to advances in the quest for improved anticancer agents from natural resources - be they plants, marine organisms or micro-organisms.Additionally, approaches to the development of antimalarial agents are reviewed, as are strategies for cancer chemopreventive agents.