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

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