Fodor Gábor: New methods and recent developments of the stereochemistry of ephedrine, pyrrolizidine, granatane and tropane alkaloids - Recent developments in the chemistry of natural carbon compounds 1. (Budapest, 1965)
This book contains three monographs in the field of carbon compounds occurring in nature. G. Fodor presents an account of new methods and recent developments in the stereochemistry of ephedrine, granatoline, pyrrolizidine and tropane alkaloids. Detailed descriptions of stereochemical and synthetic investigations are given with special emphasis on work done by Hungarian chemists, largely by the author himself, and his former or present research teams. Informal discussions of unsolved or incompletely settled problems in this field are a feature of the presentation. Many details previously inaccessible to theEnglishspeaking reader arc included. The part by K. Nádor interestingly completes the previous monograph by a systematic survey of the pharmacological actions of tropeines. Results in this field are fully utilized to point out relations between stereochemical structure and physiological properties, leading to several generalizations based on the author’s research published here for the first time in English. A brief introduction to the necessary fundamental physiological con-