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The purpose of this article is to review the chemistry of the limonoids isolated from plants of the natural order Meliaceae; limonoids from the Rutaceae and Cneoraceae are not included. The chemistry of the limonoids was last reviewed in this series by Dreyer (84); a more recent review is by Connolly, Overton and Polonsky (73). Taxonomic aspects have been reviewed recently by the present author (199), and chemistry and phyto-chemistry have been discussed at a recent meeting (81). The present article sets out to review advances in limonoid chemistry since the last review in this series (84); the tables however are intended to be comprehensive.
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Taylor, D.A.H. (1984). The Chemistry of the Limonoids from Meliaceae. In: Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products. Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products, vol 45. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8717-3_1
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