Books by Margareta Sequin

Margareta Sequin has a PhD in organic chemistry, with emphasis on natural products, from the University of Basel, Switzerland. After postdoctoral work at Princeton University she has taught organic chemistry, natural products chemistry, and chemistry for non-majors at San Francisco State University for more than twenty years. She leads field seminars at botanical gardens and in nature preserves. As a plant enthusiast with great interest in the insect world as well she has been a docent at the Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Berkeley, California, for the last twenty years. Extensive travelling allows her to observe and photograph many natural habitats. Margareta Sequin is the author of the book "The Chemistry of Plants: Perfumes, Pigments, and Poisons", published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2012.