<i>Medicinal Natural Products: A Biosynthetic Approach, Third Edition</i>, provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to natural products from a biosynthetic perspective, focussing on the metabolic sequences leading to various classes of natural products. The book builds upon fundamental chemical principles and guides the reader through a wealth of diverse natural metabolites with particular emphasis on those used in medicine. <p>There have been rapid advances in biosynthetic understanding over the past decade through enzymology, gene isolation and genetic engineering. <i>Medicinal Natural Products</i> has been extended and fully updated in this new edition to reflect and explain these developments and other advances in the field. It retains the user-friendly style and highly acclaimed features of previous editions:</p><ul><li><div>a comprehensive treatment of plant, microbial, and animal natural products in one volume</div></li><li><div>extensive use of chemical schemes with a