Šemâkin, Mihail Mihajlovič: The chemistry of natural depsipeptides - Recent developments in the chemistry of natural carbon compounds 2. (Budapest, 1967)
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF NATURAL CARBON COMPOUNDS Volume II This book — the second volume of the series — consists of three monographs on natural organic compounds. M. M. She my akin and Yu. A. Ovchinnikov present a truly authentic, very concise and brilliantly composed survey on the chemistry of depsipeptides. Recent developments described in the monograph well illustrate the rapid progress in depsipeptide research; several details of the chemistry of these compounds as given in textbooks published only a few years ago, appear now discredited. I. Ognyanov and D. Ivanov report their pioneering work on the structural elucidation of the constituents of Bulgarian Zdravets oil. The main component, germacrone, has been shown to possess the structure of a sesquiterpene with a formerly unknown carbon skeleton. Cs. Szántay gives an account of his own researches on ipecac alkaloids within the framework of a lucid monograph that contains reference to all important papers