Special Issue "Vitamins"

Guest Editor
Dr. Thomas Netscher
Research and Development, DSM Nutritional Products, Bldg. 214/27, P.O. Box 2676, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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Dear Colleagues,

Vitamins are essential organic copmpounds which are either not synthesized in the human and animal organism or formed only in insufficient amounts. Nutraceuticals are the active ingredients in functional food or nutraceutical supplements that deliver a health benefit. Both groups of compounds must be taken up by nutrition and are of great economical importance as additives in food and feed (human and animal nutrition), in pharma, health and personal care products of daily life, as well as technical applications, for example as stabilizers.

Contributions for this special issue may cover all aspects of their chemistry, like investigations of biosynthesis, biological activity, metabolism, sourcing from nature, analytics, and the broad range of activities accompanied with organic chemical synthesis. This is preparation of stereoisomers, derivatives, labelled compounds, metabolites, analogues and intermediates, elucidation of reaction mechanisms, and development of efficient catalytic methods, including biotransformations, in particular directed towards environmentally benign large-scale production.

Thomas Netscher, Ph. D.
Guest Editor

Related Journals

Section Vitamins in Nutrients

Submission

All papers should be submitted to molecules@mdpi.com with copy to the guest editor. To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at the special websites.

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Instructions for Authors page. Molecules is an international peer-reviewed monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a paper. Open Access publication fees are 800 CHF per paper. English correction fees (250 CHF) will be added in certain cases (1050 CHF per paper for those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections).

• organic synthesis
• catalysis
• biotransformation
• reaction mechanism
• biosynthesis
• analytics
• natural sources
• biological activity
• metabolism
• nutrition