Application of Hyphenated Techniques in Natural Product Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

The market for natural products has increased exponentially in the last decade. The awareness of a strict correlation between bioactive compounds contained in foods and plants is the reason for the success of natural bioactive compounds and nutraceuticals. Diets based on nutraceuticals and natural medicaments, such as in traditional medicine, are currently representative of a renewed healthy lifestyle.

In this context, the need to characterize bioactive compounds in natural complex matrices or their commercial product derivatives is mandatory. Advanced analytical methods play a key role in this field, allowing for the deep correlation between compounds and pharmacological activity and safeguarding consumer health by proper quality control protocols, enabling regulatory bodies to act where necessary.

In this contest, hyphenated analytical techniques are still the most resolutive approach when a complete and reliable characterization of complex matrices is required. Despite the great success of recent fast analytical techniques, coupling separative methods with MS provides highly informative results, in terms of quali-quantitative data and validation method parameters.

Research studies focused on the “Application of Hyphenated Techniques in Natural Product Analysis” are welcome in this Special Issue, aimed to highlight the great potential of combined powerful analytical strategies and their wide range of applications.

Dr. Adriana Arigò
Dr. Emanuela Trovato
Dr. Petr Česla
Guest Editors

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