Analytical techniques for natural product research /

• Main Author: Kumar, Satyanshu, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2016.
• Subjects: Plant extracts > Analysis > Technique.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.; Composition and Quality of Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.; Techniques and Methodology.; Analytical methods.; Chemical composition.; Medicinal plants.; Plant composition.; Plant extracts.; Quality controls.; Standardization.
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This book contains 8 chapters focusing on new mechanisms to induce and regulate the quality control of plant-based medicines. The importance of these techniques in the standardization of multi-component, plant-based formulations is also discussed.

Table of Contents:

• Analytical Techniques in Natural Product Research
• Phytochemical Processing: Extraction Methods
• Supercritical Fluid Extraction
• Chromatographic Techniques I : High-performance Thin-layer Chromatography and High-speed Countercurrent Chromatography
• Chromatography Techniques II : High-performance Liquid Chromatography and Ultra-performance Liquid Chromatography
• Tandem Techniques
• Non-destructive Techniques
• Antioxidant Assay.