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Chemistry of the Amazon : biodiversity, natural products, and environmental issues

Peter Rudolf Seidl, editor, Otto Richard Gottlieb, editor, Maria Auxiliadora Coelho Kaplan, editor

(ACS symposium series, 588)

American Chemical Society, 1995

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"Developed from the First International Symosium on Chemistry and the Amazon sponsored by the Associação Brasileira de Química, American Chemical Society, Centro de Tecnologia Mineral, and Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, November 21-25, 1993."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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内容説明

Discusses biodiversity conservation in tropical rainforests. Presents an overview of research on bioactive natural products from the Amazon. Examines current research and investigations of the chemical evolution. Addresses biogeochemistry issues of tropical systems. Provides an overview of environmental issues related to Amazon biodiversity, including the impact of surface mining on the quality of air, water, and soil.

目次

  • Amazon Biodiversity: A Renewable Natural Resource?
  • Natural Products as Medicinal and Biological Agents: Potentiating the Resources of the Rain Forest
  • Economic Plants of the Amazon: Their Industrial Development in Defense of the Forest
  • Agroforestry Strategies for Alleviating Soil Chemical Constraints to Food and Fiber Production in the Brazilian Amazon
  • Secondary Compound Accumulation in Plants-The Application of Plant Biotechnology to Plant Improvement: A Proposed Strategy for Natural-Product Research in Brazil
  • The Promise of Plant-Derived Natural Products for the Development of New Pharmaceuticals and Agrochemicals
  • Poisons and Anti-poisons from the Amazon Forest
  • Biologically Active Neolignans from Amazonian Trees
  • Proteins from Amazonia: Studies and Perspectives for Their Research
  • Terpenoids from Amazonian Icacinaceae
  • Chemical Studies of Myristicaceae Species of the Colombian Amazon
  • Plant Chemistry of Amazonia in an Ecological Context
  • Lignans: Diversity, Biosynthesis, and Function
  • The Chemistry of Amazonian Myristicaceae: Developmental, Ecological, and Pharmacological Aspects
  • Amazonia versus Australia: Geographically Distant, Chemically Close
  • Chemodiversity of Angiosperms: Latitude- and Herbaceousness-Conditioned Gradients
  • Future-Oriented Mapping of Biodiversity in Amazonia
  • Advances in Amazonian Biogeochemistry
  • The Chemistry of Headwater Streams in the Rio das Mortes System and Its Effect on the Structure of the Biotic Community
  • The Chemistry of Atmospheric Aerosol Particles in the Amazon Basin
  • The "Garimpo" Problem in the Amazon Region
  • Mineral Extraction in the Amazon and the Environment: The Mercury Problem

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