Natural Compounds: An Introduction
Rose Marie O. Mendoza
9781774691335
272 pages
Arcler Education Inc
Overview
The book introduces Natural Products in the most comprehensive and practical manner. Ranging from the historical development to modern preparation, synthesis and application, this book presents a detailed account of the nature of natural products, its classification as well as the major categories of compounds in natural products, and the processes employed to obtain the natural product itself, the active ingredient or the specific bioactive material. These processes included but is not to limited isolation, extraction, fractionation, structure elucidation and determination of pharmacological characteristics and its interaction with other compounds. The chapters are carefully crafted to serve as a quick reference for Natural Products. This book will be beneficial to both students and academicians from diverse scientific fields including chemistry, biology, and allied biomedicine disciplines as well as to those with industrial background such as environmentalists, engineers and manufacturing practitioners in the government and private institutions.
Author Bio
Dr. Rose obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Philippines-Diliman in 2013, Her Masters in Chemical Engineering and BS Chemical Engineering degree from Adamson University. She is also a Professor in the Graduate School Department under the Master of Engineering Program at Adamson University since 2006, and is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Environmental Engineering and Science, and the Department of Environmental Resource Management in Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan Taiwan since 2010. She obtained her Post Doctorate Degree in Green Power: Hydrogen Generation and Fuel Cell Development from the University of California Merced, USA (in collaboration with the Energy Storage and Conversion Materials Laboratory of the University of the Philippines, Diliman) and is presently also a collaborating researcher at the Kindai University, Nara Japan, focusing on applications of electric and electrostatic field.
Dr. Mendoza has several international and local researches covering Fuel cells and solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs), green energy and green technology, biomedical and natural products, fuels and fuel development, at water and wastewater treatment, recovery and remediation. She also published several international textbooks on water management, introductory chemical engineering and chemistry. Presently, Dr. Mendoza is the Chief Science Officer of Mark-Energy Revolution Corporation, Philippines.
