Plant Secondary Metabolites 1400-235MWR-OG

During the lecture general problems will be presented: what are the secondary metabolites of plants?; their phylogenesis; the ecological significance and chemotaxonomic use of chosen representatives of groups of metabolites; the classification, the nomenclature and the occurrence of secondary metabolites; the pathways of the biosynthesis, the physiological role in plants and the pharmacological activity on animals and men; the utilization in the cosmetics and the cosmetology.
Also will be discussed in detail groups of typical and valuable secondary metabolites: phenols and polyphenols (i.e. flavonoids and anthocyanins), quinones, betalains, coumarins, polyamines, cyanogenic glycosides, glucosinolates, terpenoids, steroids, carotenoids, and different groups of alkaloids.
Lecture topics:
1. The origin and the role of secondary metabolites.
2. Sugars, saccharides, glycosides.
3. Non-protein amino acids and amines.
4. Cyanogenic glycosides and glucosinolates.
5. Phenolics – simple phenolics, polyketides, quinones, flavonoids and anthocyanins.
6. Isoprenoids – mono-, seskwi- and diterpenoids, the tri-, tetra- and polyterpenoids.
7. Alkaloids – among others: derivatives of ornithine, lysine, tyrosine, tryptophan, quinoline, tropane and indole.
8. Non-typical fatty acids and organic acids.
9. Herbs and people – etnobotany and etnopharmacy.