Stephen Stanforth is a Reader in the School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
"""The author has successfully steered a course that charts the main chemical aspects of natural products and their biosynthesis, without becoming unduly enmeshed in biological aspects of the subject, and this is a strategy that will very well suit the target audience....The book is well balanced in its coverage, sensibly treating the fuzzy boundary between primary and seconday metabolism....this is a valuable addition to the 'at a glance' stable, and will find a welcome home in undergraduate chemistry curricula in the UK and abroad."" Chemistry World ""The undergraduate student who wants to know the mechanistic chemistry of biosynthesis is well served by this book."" Education in Chemistry"