From Artemisia Annua L. to Artemisinins ― The Discovery and Development of Artemisinins and Antimalarial Agents

Artemisinin, also known as Qing Hao Su, and its semi-synthetic derivatives are a group of drugs that possess the most rapid action of all current drugs against malaria. From Artemisia annua L. to Artemisinins: The Discovery and Development of Artemisinins as Antimalarial Agents is the first book which systematically introduces the origin and development of artemisinine and artemisinine-based drugs. This book includes 4 sections, Artemisia annua L., Artemisinin, Dihydroartemisinin, and Other artemisinin derivatives.

Tu Youyou, the chief inventor of artemisinin, together with other members from the research team, has written this book. It's a valuable reference work for researchers involved in the medical industry and scholars who undertake innovative research.

• Presents a full view of artemisinin, not only origin and development, but also chemical structure, chemical properties, extracting mode, derivatives, chromogenic reaction, general pharmacological, toxicology etc.
• Provides many aspects of artemisinin-based drugs except the chemical construction of artemisinin
• Incudes lots of precious experimental data, such as X-ray crystallography result. Which is the first application reported in China in determining the absolute molecular configuration utilizing the scattering effects of oxygen atoms by X-ray diffraction technique