Liquid Chromatography in Analysis of Bioactive Compounds for Pharmaceuticals Cosmetics and Functional Food Interest

<p>Plants produce a wide range of phytochemicals known as non-nutrition compounds to confirm their identity and they are used for the production of natural pharmaceuticals cosmetics and functional food among other things due to their pro-health properties. The use of modern chromatographic techniques allows for accurate quantitative and qualitative identification of the above-mentioned phytochemicals and their natural products. Liquid chromatography is one of the most efficient and robust specific techniques due to the merits of convenience and strong separation ability as well as a wide range of material applications for identification. Liquid chromatography is widely used to analyze plants nutraceuticals pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and in natural product quality control or quantitative determination of bioactive compounds. The most commonly used for identifying different plant materials and pharmaceuticals are ultra- and high-performance liquid chromatography with UV-VIS fluorescence and diode array which is equipped with mass spectrometry or tandem mass spectrometry detection methods. Therefore for this Special Issue we published studies concerning the latest scientific news insights and advances in the field of innovation of liquid chromatography for the analysis of bioactive compounds for pharmaceuticals cosmetics and functional food interests.</p>