The Flavonoids: Advances in Research : Edited by J.B. Harborne and T.J. Mabry Chapman and Hall; London, New York, 1982 744 pages. £ 49.50
The Flavonoids: Advances in Research : Edited by J.B. Harborne and T.J. Mabry Chapman and Hall; London, New York, 1982 744 pages. £ 49.50
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10.1016/0014-5793(83)80717-0
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发表时间:
1983-07
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3.5
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D. Pilbeam
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D. Pilbeam
In 1975, JB Harborne, TJ Mabry and H. Mabry edited a book entitled ‘The Flavonoids’ in which 25 contributors summarised progress made in the study of flavonoids since 1962. The current book ‘The Flavonoids: Advances in Research’deals with advances made in flavonoid research from 1975-1980, and the scale of advances recorded bears witness to the stimulation that this area of research received from the earlier book.. Many of the authors of the first book contribute to the current book and this ensures that there is continuity between the two. There are chapters on anthocyanins, flavones and flavonols, flavone and flavonol glycosides, minor flavonoids, proanthocyanidins, C-glycosyl flavonoids, biflavonoids and isoflavonoids. Each of these chapters contains details of new reports, plus information on such topics as distribution, biological properties, biosynthesis and methods for separation and identification of the compounds described. In addition, each chapter finishes with a check list of all known compounds within each group. There is a separate chapter on the biosynthesis of flavonoids, a chapter on mammalian metabolism of flavonoids and two chapters on isolation and identification techniques. The increasing use of i3C-NMR spectroscopy has resulted in one of these two chapters on methodology being devoted entirely to the application of this technique to flavonoid identification, and 125 i3C-NMR spectra are included.This book keeps up the high standard of presentation of ‘The Flavonoids’ and the tables and checklists of compounds give a great deal of information very clearly. It is an essential companion to ‘The Flavonoids’ but, more importantly, it is a self-contained work that can be read in its own right. It is an invaluable source of data and references for post-graduate and post-doctoral researchers in flavonoid chemistry and it ought to appear in the libraries of all academic institutions where biochemistry, botany and chemistry are taught, and the libraries of many industrial research laboratories as well.