The Chemical Biology of Human Vitamins, Hardcover

As humans evolved from primordial organisms they lost the capacity to make certain essential molecules. This textbook provides a thorough chemocentric view on the key small molecules of life, the human vitamins and their active coenzyme forms. Authored by leading educators, this text will serve as an ideal guide and reference point for chemists in both academia and industry, graduates and advanced undergraduate students in biochemistry, chemical biology, metabolism and metabolomics.

Prof Walsh was on the faculty of MIT and Harvard Medical School and is now affiliated with the ChEM-H Institute at Stanford University. Yi Tang is a professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and Chemistry at UCLA. Between them they have published many research and review articles that examine the chemical logic that underlies both primary and secondary metabolic pathways. Among their joint efforts is the recent monograph Natural Product Biosynthesis, Chemical Logic and Enzymatic Machinery (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017).