Mass Spectrometry and NMR Profiling: Strategies for Natural Products Characterization
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 2022) | Viewed by 11718
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mass spectrometry; NMR; chromatographic separation; natural products chemistry; proteomics; food analysis; organic chemistry
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Interests: natural product chemistry; metabolomics; NMR; isolation and structural elucidation of metabolites; allelopathy; bioactive compounds
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, natural products (NPs) have been the focus of an increasing number of research studies. The broad structural diversity of NPs attracts the attention of chemists, cell biologists, chemical engineers, analytical chemists and microbiologists, stimulated by the need for new therapeutics to address existing and emerging infectious diseases.
The potential use of a natural extract or an isolated compound is closely related to their composition determination and structure, respectively. The analytical tools which contribute to gain the molecular characterization of mixtures or isolated NPs are not numerous and are dominated by mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. To unravel the complexity of NPs and identify the entities of interest, they are usually coupled with high-resolution separation techniques (i.e. HPLC or capillary electrophoresis) and with cheminformatics approach to simplify the results and interpret them.
This Special Issue of Molecules is dedicated to original research and review articles that cover the latest findings on NPs characterization.
Dr. Vera Muccilli
Dr. Monica Scognamiglio
Dr. Julien Wist
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Mass spectrometry
- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
- Molecular structure
- Natural Products
- Structural elucidation
- Extract dereplication
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