Plant Natural Product: Extraction, Separation, Purification, Essential Oils and Functional Product Development
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 8178
Special Issue Editors
Interests: synthesis; natural products; isolation; NMR analysis; chromatographic techniques
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Interests: isolation; biological activities; natural products; chromatography
Interests: enzyme inhibition; enzyme kinetics; molecular docking; in vitro and in vivo studies
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The importance of natural products is increasing day by day due to its prominent contribution to pharmacotherapy, in particular for cancer, diabetic, and other infectious diseases. According to one report, over 60% of the existing drugs for infectious diseases were obtained from natural sources, while around 80% of the world’s population relies on medicines obtained from plants for the health care system. However, the extraction methods and methods of application might affect the efficacy of natural-based extracts and essential oils. The successful application of these techniques has largely advanced our knowledge in medicinal herbs and improved the integration between natural products chemistry and disciplines of modern medical sciences.
This Special Issue covers multidisciplinary topics, including the characterization of bioactive compounds, their synthetic modification, and extraction of essential oils from aromatic and medicinal plants. Moreover, this Special Issue is intended to present and discuss high quality original research articles, or review articles focused on new, novel and known active secondary metabolites.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Isolation, purification, and characterization of secondary metabolites;
- Synthetic modification of natural products with potential pharmaceutical activities;
- Essential oils with different bioassays;
- In vitro and in vivo analysis;
- Medicinal plants and their extracts with pharmacological activities;
- Molecular docking and in silico studies.
Dr. Najeeb Ur Rehman
Dr. Riaz Ullah
Dr. Ajmal Khan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural products
- synthetic modification
- medicinal plants
- marine species
- biological activities
- NMR spectroscopy
- in vitro and in vivo study
- molecular docking
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