[Natural product research in Taiwan (II)]

The results of natural product research of the field of pharmaceutics and others (other than the field of chemistry) in Taiwan were described in this review and 290 research papers (until 1985) were collected. The review introduced the studies of chemical constituents of 270 maybe species of plants, one species of animal and one species of metabolite of fungus, from which 136 kinds of new compounds were isolated and elucidated.