Sustainable Techniques for Extraction and Isolation of Natural Bioactive Compounds

Dear Colleagues,

Given the growing importance of ensuring more sustainable industrial processes and, at the same time, the need to find solutions to reduce the incidence and impact of chronic pathologies such as metabolic syndrome, extracting and obtaining bioactive compounds from natural products has become a priority for pharmacy, biomedicine, and food technology and engineering. Recovering bioactive compounds from industrial by‑products and wastes to develop more sustainable producing systems is attracting interest throughout the scientific community. Some of the hallmarks of process integration and intensification for bioactive compounds recovery include a holistic perspective on the design and enhancement of the extraction procedures to allow for more efficient extractions, as well as the creation of purification procedures that allow enhanced bioactive natural products.

This Special Issue on “Sustainable techniques for extraction and isolation of natural bioactive compounds” seeks high-quality works focusing on recent advances in the development and application of extraction and purification process for bioactive compound recovery and extraction from natural sources or industrial by‑products and wastes. Topics include, but are not limited to, methods and/or applications in the following areas:

• Conventional extraction techniques applied to recover bioactive compounds from industrial by‑products or wastes;
• Advanced extraction techniques applied to recover bioactive compounds from industrial by‑products or wastes, such as PLE, UAE, or SFC;
• Innovative extraction techniques applied to recover bioactive compounds from industrial by products or wastes, such as extraction assisted by enzymes, pulsed electric fields (PEFs), etc.;
• Optimization of extraction procedures through experimental design;
• Purification procedures to obtain purer extracts or bioactive compounds;
• Purification procedures to obtain more efficient bioactive extracts.

Prof. Dr. Juan Antonio Nieto
Prof. Mariana Silva López
Prof. Teodoro Suárez Diéguez
Guest Editors

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• natural products
• purification
• pressurized liquid extraction
• supercritical fluid extractions
• ultrasound-assisted extraction
• advanced extraction
• solid–liquid extraction
• sistainable extraction
• eutectic solvents