Chromatographic Screening of Natural Products
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 33715
Special Issue Editors
Interests: HPLC; GC; TLC; TLC-direct bioautography; effect directed analysis; plant bioactive components; food contamination
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chromatography, mostly high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and gas chromatography (GC), is one of the most powerful techniques in natural product investigation. Mainly, it is used for qualitative and quantitative analysis of target compounds. However, no less important is chromatographic screening, which is a fast method of semi-quantitative data acquisition concerning all components of a given sample. TLC and its high performance version, i.e., HPTLC, is competitive with HPLC in screening analysis, which in case of (HP)TLC can be done for many samples in parallel and with lower costs. Chromatographic profiling can be done based on chemical, biological and physicochemical/spectroscopic properties of sample components. However, the most important are pharmacological properties of natural products, in particular correlation of bioactivity of their constituents with structural information. Biological and/or chemical fingerprints are chromatographic patterns of biologically active and/or chemically characteristic constituents present in the sample. HPLC and (HP)TLC hyphenated with bioassays belong to so-called effect directed analysis (EDA).
All the above-mentioned issues related to chromatographic screening will be the subject of the proposed Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Irena Maria Choma
Guest Editor
Dr. Hanna Nikolaichuk
Guest Editor Assistant
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Molecules is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- chromatographic screening
- chemical profiling
- bio-profiling
- fingerprints
- bioassays
- TLC-direct bioautography
- effect directed detection
- effect directed analysis
Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue
- Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
- Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
- Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
- External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
- e-Book format: Special Issues with more than 10 articles can be published as dedicated e-books, ensuring wide and rapid dissemination.
Further information on MDPI's Special Issue policies can be found here.