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Overall, the chlorophenol market is ia decline. Table 2 gives worldwide production figures for 1989, excluding China, India, and Russia. Part of Western Europe s production is exported to Russia for reasons of quaUty. The main producers are brought together ia Table 3 according to the nature of their chlorophenol production. 

I shall confine my remarks to the development of polymer science in America. There was considerable work before that in Europe, but that was before chemistry of polymers became sophisticated and real progress was made in the field. In about 1910 industrial work on polymers began to be carried out, although the understanding of polymers was very meager. The industrial work was done mainly on natural products such as horn and hoof and they were converted into useable materials by various means without much understanding of the real chemistry involved. 

Cott J. (1995). NCDEU update. Natural product formulations available in europe for psychotropic indications. Psychopharmacol Bull. 31(4) 745-51. 

The structural modification of natural products is useful in several ways. The known pharmacology of bisindole alkaloids is enriched by the diversity of chemical structures that are made available by structure modification and total synthesis. These molecules have served as biochemical probes in several areas of biology, especially in those of microtubule assembly and drug resistance. The most elusive prize, however, has remained the discovery of new compounds with clinical activity. In recent years several compounds have been evaluated in clinical trials, but vinblastine and vincristine remain the only bisindole alkaloids approved for the treatment of cancer in the United States. These compounds are joined by vindesine in Europe, and at least two new derivatives are the subject of ongoing clinical trials. Considering the breadth of chemical research in this area, the overall yield as measured by new compounds with clinical activity has been relatively low, but this observation is not unique in history of analog development in cancer research. Nevertheless, the search continues, and this chapter details the chemical endeavors to discover a new bisindole alkaloid with clinical activity. 

Apart from natural-product-derived modem medicine, natural products are also used directly in the natural pharmaceutical industry that is growing rapidly in Europe and North America, as well as in the traditional medicine programmes being incorporated into the primary health care systems of Mexico, The People s Repuhhc of China, Nigeria and other developing countries. 

The first theoretical chemists were appointed to Canadian universities in the mid- to late 1950s, long after strong traditions for theoretical chemistry had been established in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. Furthermore, many of the first Canadian theoreticians often carried out experiments or maintained experimental laboratories in departments of chemistry in which the dominant figures were typically experimental physical chemists or organic chemists with a penchant for natural products and synthesis. 

In Europe, approximately 69 million tons of oil was used as the raw material for the chemical industry in 2008 [1], The total oil demand in Europe was 703 million tons in that year [2], In contrast, only approximately 5% of all industry feedstock is of renewable origin [3], Most of this reflects direct use of natural products like cotton for textiles, wood pulp for papermaking, or different oils for special applications and for oleochemistry in general (detergents, lubricants, etc.) [3],... 

Nahrstedt, A. (1987) Recent developments in chemistry, distribution and biology of the cyanogenic glycosides, in Annual Proceedings of the Phytochemical Society of Europe, Vol. 24, Biologically Active Natural Products (eds K. Hostettmann and RJ. Lea). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 213-34. 

In the same way that the toxic properties of the constituents of the yew tree have encouraged investigation of all its parts, practically all Taxus species have also been studied T. baccata L. in Europe, T. brevifolia in North America, T. cuspidata, T. wallichiana, and T. mairei in Asia, and Austrotaxus spiccata Compton in New Caledonia. Although taxanes may be considered as the typical constituents of the genus Taxus, other natural products, such as ecdysones, triterpenoids, lignans, glycosides, and flavonoids have also been identified [these are described in a recent review by Ud-Din Khan and N. Parveen (75)]. 

Lewis published these ideas in his 1923 book Valence and the Structure of Atoms and Molecules, and they were widely taken up and developed in the U.S.A. and Europe, for example, by N. V. Sidgwick at Oxford, whose Electronic Theory of Valency appeared in 1927. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was left unfilled in 1919, 1924 and 1933 for lack of candidates of suitable stature, and Lewis would have been an appropriate candidate for any of these years. In fact, he was nominated for a Nobel Prize by the inorganic chemist and historian of chemistry, J. R. Partington (1886-1965) at the University of London. For the first half-century after the award of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry to van t Hoff in 1901, the chemistry prize went to those who had discovered or characterised new chemical elements, new physico-chemical principles, new chemical reactions, or had elucidated the structure and accomplished the synthesis of natural products. The first award for research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances went in 1954 to Linus Pauling at Caltech. 

There is worldwide confusion about the regulations on natural products and dialogue between countries for harmonization is needed. This is important for both the consumers and the developers and producers of new products. Some general regulations exist in the United States, Canada and Europe, where health claims permitted are generic and not product-specific. Products that claim benefits in the prevention or treatment of disease or illness are considered drugs or medicinal products and not foods (Stephen, 1998). This trend may, however, change with the renewed interest in functional foods and alternative medicine. 

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