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Contemporary methods for the extraction and isolation of natural products

Guest Editors:
Vassya Bankova: Chief of the Chemistry of Natural Compounds Laboratory, at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Milena Popova: Head of Chemistry of Natural Substances laboratory at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

BMC Chemistry has published this Collection focused on contemporary methods for the extraction and isolation of natural products. Naturally derived chemicals hold a vast range of potential applications for science, medicine and wider industry. This Collection sought to showcase new, more efficient and sustainable methods of collecting such products and more refined means of purifying them.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Milena Popova: Head of Chemistry of Natural Substances laboratory at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, (IOCCP). Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

Prof Dr Milena Popova completed her PhD in natural product chemistry at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IOCCP-BAS) in 2004. In 2019, she became a full professor at the same organization, where she now heads the lab “Chemistry of Natural Substances”. Her research interests include extraction, chemical profiling, isolation and structural elucidation of bioactive compounds of different products such as medicinal and endemic plants, bee product-propolis and mushrooms; metabolomics approaches and green chemistry. She is a co-author of over 100 papers, including book chapters and reviews, and has been cited over 3,500 times.
 

Vassya Bankova: Chief of the Chemistry of Natural Compounds Laboratory, at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

BMC Chemistry Senior Board Member Vassya Bankova graduated the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy in Sofia as a chemical engineer majoring in Organic Synthesis. Her career developed at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Center of Phytochemistry (IOCCP), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. PhD and DSc theses in Chemistry of Natural Products. At present full professor at IOCCP. Research interests: new biologically active compounds from medicinal plants, bee products, development of modern methods for analysis of complex extracts of natural products, H-index 47. She is a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and a member of Academia Europaea.

About the collection

Chemicals derived from numerous natural sources such as plants, mushrooms, marine organisms and microorganisms have been successfully used as highly effective medicines and research reagents. The huge diversity of biological and pharmacological activities such chemicals provide makes them excellent candidates for drug development. The use of such products across pharmaceutical, cosmetic, nutraceutical and chemical industries requires increasingly refined and efficient methods to extract them from their source. There is also a growing impetus to find greener and more sustainable methods for extracting natural products at scale by reducing the consumption of raw material, solvents, and energy, as well as using environmentally friendly extraction media. 

This Collection for BMC Chemistry, Contemporary methods for the extraction and isolation of natural products, highlights the most recent developments and emerging trends in the field of natural products science. 

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  1. Phytochemical investigation of Key lime (Citrus aurantifolia L., F. Rutaceae) peels afforded six metabolites, known as methyl isolimonate acetate (1), limonin (2), luteolin (3), 3ˋ-hydroxygenkwanin (4), myricetin...

    Authors: Abeer H. Elmaidomy, Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen, Ahmed M. Sayed, Faisal H. Altemani, Naseh A. Algehainy, Denisa Soost, Thomas Paululat, Gerhard Bringmann and Esraa M. Mohamed
    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2024 18:60
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. This study describes methodologies for extracting and isolating bergenin, a C-glucoside of 4-O-methylgallic acid found in some plants and it presents various in vitro and in vivo biological activities. Bergenin w...

    Authors: Oscar Caetano Silva-Neto, Caio Silva Assis Felix, Leonardo de Oliveira Aguiar, Mauricio Brandão dos Santos, Silvio Cunha and Jorge Mauricio David
    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2024 18:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Contemporary methods for the extraction and isolation of natural products" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.