Carotenoids: Handbook
Carotenoids: Handbook
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10.1055/s-2004-830990
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2004
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A. Young
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《类胡萝卜素手册》是 Birkhäuser 出版的类胡萝卜素书籍系列的姊妹篇，由同一组备受尊敬的编辑（即 George Britton、Syøve Liaaen-Jensen 和 Hanspeter Pfander）编辑。虽然这本书最初可能被一些人视为《类胡萝卜素之钥》（同样由 Birkhäuser 出版，现已绝版）的简单替代品，但它实际上远不止于此。首先，它对原始“钥匙”中包含的信息进行了急需的更新，虽然发现新化合物的黄金时代早已过去，但很明显，最初列出的许多类胡萝卜素都是分离的产物，或者它们的结构根本不正确。编辑们现在已经根据一套严格的标准审查了每种化合物的可用数据，结果是新书既包含一个主列表（包含现在有足够证据来指定结构的化合物），又包含一个补充列表（对其鉴定可能存在一些疑问的化合物）。其次，与“钥匙”不同的是，这本书为列出的每种类胡萝卜素提供了大量宝贵的鉴定数据。这本书显然是为了在工作台上使用而设计的，那么它是如何组织的呢？化合物（主列表中有超过 560 种）根据其结构进行分组（如最初的“Key”；碳氢化合物、羟基类胡萝卜素等），单个类胡萝卜素的每个条目都给出整页。每个页面的布局非常赏心悦目，数据以用户友好的方式呈现。给出了每种化合物的通用名称和半系统名称以及分子式和结构。此外，还提供了关键的光谱数据，即紫外/可见光（con-
The ‘Carotenoids Handbook’is a companion volume to the Carotenoids book series published by Birkhäuser and edited by the same team of highly respected editors–namely George Britton, Synøve Liaaen-Jensen and Hanspeter Pfander. Whilst this volume may initially be seen by some as a simple replacement for the ‘Key to Carotenoids’(also published by Birkhäuser and now out-of-print), it is actually much more than this. First, it provides a much needed update of the information contained in the original ‘Key’, and whilst the golden age of discovery of new compounds has long since passed, it is clear that a number of the carotenoids originally listed were artefacts of isolation or their structures were simply incorrect. The editors have now reviewed the data available on each compound against a strict set of criteria with the result that the new book contains both a main list (containing compounds for which there is now sufficient evidence to assign a structure), and a supplementary list (compounds where some doubt may exist concerning its identification). Second, and unlike the ‘Key’, this book provides a considerable amount of invaluable identification data for each carotenoid listed.This is a book clearly intended for use at the bench, so how is it organised? Compounds (there are> 560 in the main list) are organised into groupings based on their structure (as in the original ‘Key’; hydrocarbons, hydroxycarotenoids, etc.) with each entry on an individual carotenoid being given a full page. The layout of each page is very pleasing to the eye and the data is presented in a user-friendly manner. Both common and semi-systematic names of each are given as well as the molecular formula and structure. In addition, key spectroscopic data is also provided, namely UV/Vis (con-