Lignan Handbook

<p>Lignans are aromatic compounds isolated from plants. This handbook presents an authoritative and comprehensive review of lignan chemistry, biochemistry, nomenclature, uses, and occurrence. Lignans are used in a wide variety of industries and this book will appeal to those working in the pulp and paper industries, renewable energy, specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, flavors and fragrances, agriculture and forestry, evolution and ecology. </p><p>Additionally, the book features a comprehensive lignans dictionary section, drawn from the prestigious <i>Dictionary of Natural Products.</i> Other features include:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of this important group of natural products </li> <p> </p> <li>Addresses and resolves problems in current lignan nomenclature </li> <p> </p> <li>Edited by the leaders in the field of lignan chemistry and biochemistry </li> </ul> <p>Chapter 01</p><p>Redefining Lignan and Neolignan Skeleta Nomenclature with Dirigent Protein Discovery: a Historical Perspective </p><p>Chapter 02</p><p>The Occurrence and Diversity of Potential “Lignan Building Blocks” in Nature</p><p>Chapter 03</p><p>Monomeric Phenylpropanoid (C6C3) and Lignan (C6C3 Dimeric) Natural Products in Plants, Bacteria, Fungi and Animals: Structural Diversity and Chemotaxonomy</p><p>Chapter 04</p><p>Dirigent Protein Roadmap to Lignans and Other Vascular Plant Phenol Classes</p><p>Chapter 05</p><p>8–8′-Lignan Biosynthesis Roadmap </p><p>Chapter 06</p><p>8–2′-, 8–3′- (8–5′-) and 8–O–4′-Linked Lignan Biosynthesis Roadmap</p><p>Chapter 07</p><p>Allyl/Propenyl Phenol Biosynthesis and C9/C9′ Deoxygenation Roadmap</p><p>Chapter 08</p><p>8–8′- and 8–7′-Nor-lignan Biosynthesis Roadmap</p><p>Chapter 09</p><p>Roadmap to “Mixed Biochemical Pathway” Lignans</p><p>Chapter 10</p><p>Oligomeric Lignan Diversity in Planta: A Biochemical Roadmap for the Future</p><p>Chapter 11</p><p>Lignan Chirality Roadmap: A Scientific Art in Danger of Being Lost?</p>