Natural Products: Extraction, Separation, Structure Elucidation and Biological Activities
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 8751
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant endophytes; LCMS; different biological activities of natural products
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Interests: natural product chemistry; structure elucidation; NMR metabolomics; mass metabolomics; HPLC method development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural products are compounds isolated from different natural sources, such as plants, animals, microbes, insects, plant pathogens, endophytes and marine animals. These are known as secondary metabolites, since they are formed due to the enzymatic resections of primary metabolites (amino acids, sugars, vitamins, etc.). Currently, modern developments and techniques, such as UPLC, HPLC, SFC, QTOFMS, NMR and MASS metabolomics, have improved this field dramatically, allowing for more interesting novel findings with such advanced analytical techniques increasing researcher and scientist interest as well as enhancing the quality of work and research outputs. Natural products and their synthetic analogues have shown significant activities towards many diseases. Chemical constituents from different natural sources play important roles in combating different types of cancers, with several anticancer treatments having been derived from natural sources such as paclitaxel, etoposide, mitomycin C and actinomycin D. Many famous drugs, including digoxin, digitoxin, vinblastine, vincristine, quinine, morphine, physostigmine, aspirin, strychnine, emetine and tubocurarine, were also isolated from natural sources. The importance of natural products prompted us to arrange a Special Issue combining advancements and modern research related to isolation and structure elucidation, along with biological activities of extracts and secondary metabolites.
Dr. Shagufta Perveen
Dr. Jiangnan Peng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural product chemistry
- structure elucidation
- NMR metabolomics
- mass metabolomics
- HPLC method development
- plant endophytes
- LCMS
- different biological activities of natural products
- novel methods to isolate and characterize active constituents
- bioactive natural products
- cytotoxic compounds