Molecules That Changed the World

Here, the best-selling author and renowned researcher, K. C. Nicolaou, presents around 40 natural products that all have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. Printed in full color throughout with a host of pictures, this book is written in the author’s very enjoyable and distinct style, such that each chapter is entirely of exciting and entertaining information on the facts, stories, and people behind the scenes. Molecules covered span the healthy and useful, as well as the much-needed and extremely toxic, including Aspirin, urea, camphor, morphine, strychnine, penicillin, vitamin B12, Taxol, Brevetoxin and quinine.