Advances in the Chemical-Biological Knowledge of Essential Oils
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2025 | Viewed by 2425
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ethnobotany; economic botany; essential oils; biological activity; medicinal and aromatic plants
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Dear Colleagues,
Essential Oils, derived from aromatic plants, have long been utilized worldwide for various traditional purposes and hold significant potential for modern clinical application. Their utility extends across multiple fields, including medicine, aromatherapy, microbiology, agriculture, livestock, and the food industry, offering numerous benefits to society. Currently, Essential Oils (EOs) obtained from diverse plant species are the focus of extensive and valuable research. The chemical composition of these EOs varies widely depending on geographical location, botanical origin, genetics, bacterial endophytes, and extraction techniques. Essential Oils (EOs) are obtained from natural plant-based raw materials, through steam distillation, hydrodistillation, or mechanical processes (e.g., cold pressing).
This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in our understanding of EOs, particularly the therapeutic properties of their components and their potential as food preservatives, while also elucidating their possible mechanism of action. Moreover, it should provide insight into the various factors affecting their chemical composition, such as the extraction method, the specific part of the plant used, and geographical origin of the source material.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Relationship between Traditional Botanical Knowledge (TBK) and EOs;
- Chemical characterization and quality control and profiling of EOs and their derivatives;
- Chemotaxonomy and EOs;
- Therapeutic uses and EOs;
- Agricultural practices for the production and quality improvement of EOs;
- EOs in biotechnology;
- EOs in nanotechnology and nanomedicine;
- EOs in cosmetics and food/beverage production;
- EOs as safe biopesticides.
The submission of studies on Essential Oils (stricto sensu) is encouraged, but manuscripts presenting other extraction methods to obtain volatile compounds from plants (e.g., solvent extraction, supercritical carbon dioxide extraction, Soxhlet extraction) will also be critically analyzed and accepted.
Dr. Andrea Maxia
Dr. Emma Cocco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- essential oils (EOs)
- volatile compounds
- chemical composition
- biological activity
- traditional botanical knowledge
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