Natural Products Research: Isolation, Characterization and Bio-Functional Exploration
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmaceutical Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 776
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce to you, our valued scientists, our new Special Issue titled "Natural Products Research: Isolation, Characterization and Bio-Functional Exploration," which aims to explore recent developments in pharmacognosy, natural product chemistry and biology, along with innovative strategies and the importance of interdisciplinary integration. We expect our authors to discuss the isolation, structure characterization and structure–activity relationships of compounds derived from natural sources—plant, animal, fungal and bacterial—and particularly welcome qualitative discussions of the pharmacological and bio-functional properties of natural extracts, as well as ethnopharmacological discussions.
As the applications of natural products in pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, agriculture and biotechnology have returned to their former glory in recent years, we look forward to your contributions along this journey. Biological-activity-centered studies, combining traditional isolation and structure characterization knowledge with modern-day high-tech analytical technologies and computational chemistry, continue to seek solutions to existing and emerging problems. We look forward to collaborating with you on this Special Issue. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Isolation, purification and structural characterization of natural compounds
- Essential oil of new sources, new biological activity statement of fattyoils and essential oils
- Bioactivity assessment, mechanism of action studies and structure-activity relationships
- Metabolomics, deduplication and advanced analytical methods
- Biosynthetic pathways and biotechnological production of natural products
- Marine, microbial, plant-derived and endophytic natural products
- Applications of natural products in medicine, food, cosmetics and agriculture
- Computational chemistry, molecular docking and in silico predictions of natural compounds
- Nanomaterials of natural products
Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ceyhan Gören
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- structural characterization
- isolation
- natural products
- biological activity
- computational
- pharmacognosy
- pharmacology
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