Chromatography and Spectrometry in Food Safety and Pharmaceutical Analysis
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 6445
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drug analysis; instrumental methods; liquid chromatography; bioactive compounds; product quality; QSPR; QSAR
2. Department of Chemical Biology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Olomouc, Slechtitelu 27, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug design; structure–activity relationships; pharmaceutical analysis; polymorphism; drug bioavailability; ADME; nanoparticles; nanoformulations; controlled/targeted delivery
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Interests: drug analysis; liquid chromatography; densitometry; QSPR; QSAR; chemometrics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is a pleasure to invite you to submit original articles, communications, and review papers to a Special Issue of Molecules entitled “Chromatography and Spectrometry in Food Safety and Pharmaceutical Analysis”. The development of new drugs for various diseases, as well as the production of innovative food products, requires the use of effective analytical methods at different stages, i.e., from the synthesis and confirmation of the identity of biologically active compounds as ingredients of drugs or food to the quality control of finished food and pharmaceutical products. Quality control methods are essential in the pharmaceutical and food industries to ensure patient and consumer safety. The use of chromatographic techniques in combination with other methods such as spectrometry allows for accurate separation/identification/quantification of many bioactive compounds as potential components of drugs and food. The most commonly used methods for the separation and quantification of different drugs and food ingredients in complex mixtures are liquid chromatography, thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in combination with classical detectors such as UV–Vis, fluorescence and diode array detection or gas chromatography (GC) with flame ionization detection, respectively. However, the advent of modern detection systems in HPLC or GC, respectively, such as mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS) alone or coupled with nuclear magnetic resonance (HPLC-NMR), is more efficient for the detection and complete characterization of the structure of drugs and food components at low concentrations compared to these systems. Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to present new, high-quality research and knowledge concerning the application of chromatographic and spectrometric methods for accurate separation, identification and quantification of various natural and synthetic bioactive compounds as potential drugs and food components. This includes but is not limited to:
- chromatographic methods (TLC, HPLC, GC) in the analysis of natural and synthetic bioactive components of pharmaceuticals and food;
- chromatographic techniques in the analysis of new drug substances;
- spectrometry in the pharmaceutical and food analysis;
- method development for quality control of food and pharmaceuticals;
- food safety control;
- QSPR and QSAR investigations.
Dr. Małgorzata Dołowy
Prof. Dr. Josef Jampilek
Dr. Katarzyna Bober-Majnusz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pharmaceutical analysis
- chromatography
- HPLC
- TLC
- GC
- food quality control
- bioactive compounds
- spectrometry
- QSAR
- QSPR
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