Phytochemical Profile, Antioxidant Potential and Bioactive Potential of Natural Products
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 421
Special Issue Editors
Interests: spectroscopy; luminescence; automation; chlorophylls; phenolics; natural compounds; natural colorants; food analysis; HPLC-MS; nanomaterials; antioxidant; in vitro digestion; analytical methods for the determination of colorants
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Interests: antioxidant capacity; natural products; enzyme inhibition; phenolics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Edible fruits, herbs and vegetables usually present high levels of polyphenols, which have high antioxidant activity and are useful under stress conditions in the human body. Not only are edible plants useful from this point of view, so are non-edible plant materials. Hence, interest has grown in the use of natural plant extracts for different applications, mainly for the development of novel food and pharmaceutical products. Many of the protecting effects of natural products are derived from plant secondary metabolites, mainly phenolic compounds. They are also widely studied due to their enzyme inhibitory properties. Most usual assays involve key enzymes that are relevant to metabolic disorders. Consequently, phenolic compounds can be functional in the prevention of many diseases as well as in health maintenance. This Special Issue will cover a wide range of research areas concerning natural products. Research or review articles are welcomed, including but not limited to the identification of novel natural products, determination of phytochemical profiles, the antioxidant activity and bioactivity of novel plant species, advances in sample treatment, improvements in analytical methods for quantitation and quality control purposes, theoretical and experimental studies on the (bio)chemical properties of natural products, and potential industrial applications of new natural products.
Dr. Eulogio J. Llorent-Martínez
Dr. Gokhan Zengin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural products
- plants
- phenolic compounds
- antioxidant activity
- bioactivity
- enzyme inhibition
- sample treatment
- industrial applications
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