Innovations in Isolation and Characterization of Bioactive Compounds from Medicinal Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 36
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pharmacognosy; phytochemistry; natural products
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in the isolation and structural characterization of natural compounds from medicinal plants that show biological activity.
Preference will be given to papers that discuss innovative extraction techniques with a lower environmental impact and relative potential with respect to extraction yields.
Regarding structural characterization, spectral technique combinations for the investigation of natural compounds will be considered.
An improved understanding of many biological systems is now possible through several important techniques, including hyphenated methods, which combine NMR spectroscopy with mass spectrometry and chromatography.
Plants produce a huge amount of bioactive compounds that have an essential role in the interaction of plants with their natural environment and their ability to adapt. Metabolomics is therefore a powerful tool in plant ecology and biodiversity research. Furthermore, natural products of plant origin have long been considered a valuable source of lead compounds for drug development.
We look forward to receiving your contributions to this Special Issue, which will focus on, but is not be limited to, the topics outlined above.
Dr. Anca Toiu
Dr. Gabriella Saviano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metabolomics
- multivariate data analysis
- natural products
- technological advances
- GC-MS
- LC-MS
- NMR
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