Comprehensive Bioactive Natural Products (Extraction, Isolation & Characterization)

Natural products have always been and will remain important sources of new drug molecules. Resurgence in the use of Herbal drugs and the need for their standardization on the basis of Marker compounds gave a boost to research on natural products during the last two decades. Advances in isolation and structure determination methods including hyphenated techniques like GC-MS, LC-PDA, LC-MS, LC-FTIR, LC-NMR, LC-NMR-MS, CE-MS and X-Ray analysis coupled with online identification have proved a boon to research in natural products. A sound isolation strategy has helped in the isolation and characterization of many bioactive molecules. Bioactivity guided extraction and fractionation of medicinal plants is a feature of routine in isolating bioactive components from natural sources. These techniques are not only restricted to plant sources but are being applied to microbial, marine and even fungal sources. The present volume Extraction, Isolation & Characterization in the series Comprehensive Bioactive Natural Products incorporates research articles and review papers written by experts in the field of natural product chemistry covering the latest trends in research on biomolecules including isolation methods and structure determination.