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The Rhubarb Connection and Other Revelations: The Everyday World of Metal Ions
By
Jacques Covès;
Jacques Covès
CNRS Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble
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Raychelle Burks
Raychelle Burks
St. Edward’s University, USA
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Paperback ISBN:
978-1-78801-094-8
PDF ISBN:
978-1-83916-850-5
EPUB ISBN:
978-1-78801-669-8
Special Collection:
RSC Popular Science eBook Collection
Product Type:
Popular Science
No. of Pages:
212
Publication date:
06 Dec 2018
Book Chapter
CHAPTER 6: Chemicals from Trees and How the Pacific Yew Was Saved
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Published:06 Dec 2018
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Special Collection: RSC Popular Science eBook CollectionProduct Type: Popular Science
Page range:
72 - 92
Citation
The Rhubarb Connection and Other Revelations: The Everyday World of Metal Ions, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018, pp. 72-92.
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Here we look at the origins of chewing gum in a tree used by the ancient Maya, and the modern synthetic gum bases that are supplanting it, before moving on to other molecules including rubber and menthol, introducing the concept of chirality on the way. We then return to trees with the Pacific yew, a source of the compound which led to the anti-cancer drug Paclitaxel.
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