Physico-chemical and synthetic studies on carotenoids

Artikel in diesem Heft

1. Carotenoid research - past, present and future
2. History and industrial application of carotenoids and vitamin A
3. Characterisation, chemistry and stereochemistry of carotenoids
4. Physico-chemical and synthetic studies on carotenoids
5. Synthesis of polyenes via phosphonium ylids
6. Synthesis of optically active carotenoids and related compounds
7. Synthesis of carotenoid glycosylesters and other carotenoids
8. Recent developments in studies on biological functions of vitamin A in normal and transformed tissues
9. Thirty years of biosynthesis
10. Prenyltransferase
11. Enzymatic synthesis of carotenes
12. Solved and unsolved problems of carotenoid formation
13. Genetics and regulation of carotene biosynthesis
14. Biochemistry of the violaxanthin cycle in higher plants
15. Carotenoid protection against oxidation
16. Carotenoids - a chemosystematic approach