Advances in Liquid Separation Techniques for Food and Pharmaceutical Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

Today, the demand for highly efficient, selective, sensitive, reproducible and green analytical methodologies for complex sample preparation, fractionation and/or extraction of bioactive compounds, analysis and chemical characterization, requires continuous advances in separation media, adsorbent materials and detection techniques. All these aspects belong to analytical methodologies where liquid separation techniques play the major role.

The main aims of the present Special Issue on "Advances in Liquid Separation Techniques for Food and Pharmaceutical Analysis" belong to both fundamental studies and real case multidisciplinary investigations. Contributions to this issue, both in the form of original research or review articles, have the broad scope to illustrate recent and future trends of liquid chromatography and hyphenated techniques offering a clear vision and insights for new methodologies, improving instrumental performances and providing sensitivity and specificity.

Innovative approaches in the field of pharmaceutical sciences, cosmetics, nutraceutics, food chemistry, finalized to the extraction, characterization, purification and validation of chiral or achiral active pharmaceutical ingredients, and natural bioactive compounds from plants, are particularly welcome. Also of interest would be studies concerning molecules that are obtained from waste and re-used as secondary raw materials. Studies that involve UPLC, SFC and their hyphenation with mass spectrometry are also strongly encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Nicola Marchetti
Dr. Anna Laura Capriotti
Collection Editors

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