Chemical Composition and Bioactivities of Essential Oils, 3rd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 766
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pharmacology; chemotherapy; multidrug resistance; natural products; pharmacognosy and phytotherapy
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Dear Colleagues,
The discovery of natural, plant-based products is rightly recognized as a milestone in the history of health care, and their introduction into the market in combination with synthetic medicines has resolved many health concerns. As a result, the extraction of plant secondary metabolites such as essential oils (EOs) through steam or hydro-distillation processes has seen significant progress over the years. EOs are a complex mixture of various chemical compounds primarily characterized by their volatility, aroma, and low molecular weight. Their diverse biological properties of arise from the differences in their chemical constitution and structure. EOs play important roles in defense against external agents and participate in signal transduction pathways. Their biological properties are widely documented by a large body of research, demonstrating their antitumor, antibioceptive, antiviral, antiphlogistic, and antimicrobial activity in vitro. Furthermore, essential oils contain several chemical classes of compounds whose heterogeneity of active moieties can help prevent the development of drug resistance. Therefore, due to their low toxicity, pharmacokinetics, and multitarget action, EOs represent important alternatives to synthetic chemicals as promising drugs for therapeutic use.
The purpose of the third edition of this Special Issue, entitled "Chemical composition and bioactivity of essential oils", is to continue to provide updates on the phytochemical composition of plant extracts and to analyze the bioactivity of essential oils or their components in different models, in vitro and/or in vivo, also taking into account the possibility of using new site-specific EO delivery strategies.
Major topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
The extraction, isolation and characterization of bioactive compounds from plant extracts;
Evaluations of the antioxidant, antitumor, and antimicrobial activity of essential oils or their constituents;
Evaluations of the activity of essential oils in multidrug resistance models;
Evaluations of the benefits of using emerging technologies for the efficient delivery of EOs into target cells and in combination with conventional chemotherapy drugs.
Dr. Manuela Labbozzetta
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bioactive natural compounds
- essential oils
- chemical characterization
- the essential oil mechanism of action
- biological activities in vitro and in vivo
- antitumor
- antimicrobials
- antioxidant
- EO delivery strategies
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