Recent Developments in Chemical Analysis of Bioactive Constituents of Plants and Plant Extracts
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Analysis of Natural Products and Pharmaceuticals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editor
2. School of Natural Sciences and Technology, MSc Program Course “Chemical and Biomolecular Analysis”, Hellenic Open University, Patra, Greece
Interests: food chemistry; metabolomics; indicators; bioactive compounds; chromatography; hyphenated techniques; analytical chemistry; natural product chemistry; functional foods; magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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Dear Colleagues,
From the past to the present, from high altitudes to below sea level, and from warm climates to extreme cold ones, a plethora of plants have and will bloom. Their diversity, through their chemical content and the existence of either simple or complex and multiclass chemical compounds, has an impact on a variety of purposes for their role on Earth. In this way, plants have a multifunctional role in living organisms, either intact or through their extracts, providing a variety of advantages regarding nutrients and health. Moreover, they are studied in several scientific fields, ranging from pharmacology to food chemistry. Furthermore, their interactions with (bio)metals through, e.g., through complexation, alter their physico-chemical properties and possess a challenge to their analysis.
Thus, the chemical analysis and study of bioactive constituents of plants and plant extracts is an emerging trend, with the development and application of chemical analysis methods for the identification and characterization of the bioactive constituents of the extracts being of high priority. The above could be fulfilled either by utilizing an “intact” sample or after a separation of its constituents, mainly through several extraction methods or separation techniques. Hyphenated techniques with spectrometric methods, namely mass spectrometry and techniques based on spectroscopic methods, such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, execute the above identification and determination.
In this Special Issue, we welcome research articles, protocols, and review articles of recent developments in the methods of analyzing the bioactive constituents of plants and their extracts that impose a separation approach.
Dr. Constantinos Tsiafoulis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant extract
- bioactive constituents
- food chemistry
- method development
- magnetic resonance spectroscopy
- mass spectrometry
- natural products
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