Extraction, Isolation and Identification of Bioactive Compounds from Plant Extracts

Dear Colleagues,

In the last decade, research on natural bioactive phytochemicals has garnered increasing interest. This multidisciplinary investigation includes sustainable and clean extraction technologies, purification procedures, and advanced analytical techniques.

For this reason, a Special Issue in Molecules focused on the extraction, purification, and chemical characterization of phytochemicals from plant extracts with potential bioactivity will provide an overview of the current status and future perspectives on the manufacturing design of these highly valuable products.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Bioactive compounds from medicinal and marine plants: secondary metabolites, phenolic compounds, terpenes and terpenoids, seagrass, seaweeds, and microalgae.
• Bioactive compounds from food by-products: valorization of food byproducts; secondary metabolites, phenolic compounds, and terpenes and terpenoids.
• Advanced extraction techniques: green and GRAS solvents, supercritical fluid extraction, microwave-assisted extraction, ultrasound-assisted extraction, pressurized liquid extraction, enzymatic extraction, and experimental design.
• Characterization and purification technologies: preparative chromatography, countercurrent chromatography, size-exclusion chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry.
• Bioactivity evaluation.

This Special Issue on the Extraction, Isolation, and Identification of Bioactive Compounds from Plant Extracts will include a selection of recent research and current review articles about the composition and content of bioactive compounds in plant extracts. This Special Issue is particularly focused on articles describing new extraction and purification technologies to recover and purify bioactive compounds from different plant sources, their comprehensive chemical characterization, and their bioactive properties.

Dr. Isabel Borrás-Linares
Prof. Dr. Jesús Lozano-Sánchez
Guest Editors

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