List of Contributors.

I: BIOACTIVE ALKALOIDS: STRUCTURE AND BIOLOGY.

1. Ecological Roles of Alkaloids (Michael Wink).

2. Antitumor Alkaloids in Clinical Use or in Clinical Trials (Muriel Cuendet and John M. Pezzuto).

3. Alkaloids and the Bitter Taste (Angela Bassoli, Gigliola and Gilberto Busnelli).

4. Capsaicin and Capsaicinoids(Giovanni Appendino).

5. Glycosidase-Inhibiting Alkaloids: Isolation, Structure, and Application (Naoki Asano).

6. Neurotoxic Alkaloids from Cyanobacteria (Rashel V. Grindberg, Cynthia F. Shuman, Carla M. Sorrels, Josh Wingerd and William H. Gerwick).

7. Lamellarin Alkaloids: Structure and Pharmacological Properties (Jérôme Kluza, Philippe Marchetti and Christian Bailly).

8. Manzamine Alkaloids (Jiangnan Peng, Karumanchi V. Yeun-Mun Choo and Mark T. Hamann).

9. Antiangiogenic Alkaloids from Marine Organisms (Ana R. Diaz-Marrero, Christopher A. Gray, Lianne McHardy, Kaoru Warabi, Michel Roberge and Raymond J. Andersen).

10. A Typical Class of Marine Alkaloids: Bromopyrroles (Anna Aiello, Ernesto Fattorusso, Marialuisa Menna and Orazio Taglialatela-Scafati).

11. Guanidine Alkaloids from Marine Invertebrates (Roberto G. S. Berlinck and Miriam H. Kossuga).

II: NEW TRENDS IN ALKALOID ISOLATION AND STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION.

12. Analysis of Tropane Alkaloids in Biological Matrices (Philippe Christen, Stegan Bieri and Jean-Luc Veuthey).

13. LC-MS of Alkaloids: Qualitative Profiling, Quantitative Analysis, and Structural Identification (Steven M. Colegate and Dale R. Gardner).

14. Applications of ¹⁵NNMR Spectroscopy in Alkaloid Chemistry (Gary E. Martin, Marina Solntseva and Antony J. Williams).

III: NEW TRENDS IN ALKALOID SYNTHESIS AND BIOSYNTHESIS.

15. Synthesis of Alkaloids by Transition Metal-Mediated Oxidative Cyclizations (Hans-Joachim Knölker).

16. Camptothecin and Analoges: Structure and Synthetic Efforts (Sabrina Dallavalle and Lucio Merlini).

17. Combinatorial Synthesis of Alkaloid-like Compounds In Search of Chemical Probes of Protein-Protein Interactions (Michael Prakesch, Prabhat Arya, Marwen Naim, Traian Sulea, Enrico Purisima, Aleksey Yu. Denisov, Kalle Gehring, Trina L. Foster and Robert G. Korneluk).

18. Daphniphyllum alkaloids: Structures, Biogenesis, and Activities (Hiroshi Morita and Jun'ichi Kobayashi).

19. Structure and Biosynthesis of Halogenated Alkaloids (Gordon W. Gribble).

20. Engineering Biosynthetic Pathways to Generate Indolocarbazole Alkaloids in Microorganisms (César Sánchez, Carmen Méndez and José A. Salas).

Index.