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Plant-Based Chemicals Extraction and Isolation

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Plants represent a huge reservoir of bioactive molecules that are still little explored. Modern science is now focused on identifying the beneficial compounds from these sources to be used in pharmaceutical drugs. The search for new bioactive natural molecules is based on the choice of extraction, separation and structural identification techniques. This chapter provides a brief review of the specificity and usefulness of the most popular extraction methods in the phytochemistry field. In addition, this study describes the development of chromatographic separation and structural elucidation techniques of secondary metabolites, including analytical and preparative chromatography, mass spectrometry (MS), one- (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiences. Today, the immense progress of these techniques has enabled chemists, biologists and pharmacists to discover bioactive molecules that have found applications in drug and food industries.

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Ben Salah, H., Allouche, N. (2019). Plant-Based Chemicals Extraction and Isolation. In: Li, Y., Chemat, F. (eds) Plant Based “Green Chemistry 2.0”. Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3810-6_4

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