Marine Phenolics: Extraction and Purification Identification Characterization and Applications

Phenolic compounds are an extremely diverse class of ubiquitous secondary metabolites produced by a variety of organisms playing different biological roles. They have numerous types of demonstrated bioactivities including antioxidant antimicrobial anti-inflammatory antitumoral immunomodulator neuroprotective cardioprotective and antidiabetic activities. Marine organisms produce a vast collection of unique phenolic structures some of them not found in terrestrial habitats. Progress in different aspects is rapidly advancing and this Special Issue will provide updated information and recent studies on marine phenolics. Specially this issue is focused on their chemical characterization elucidation of their structures evaluation of their biological properties and mechanisms of action efficient extraction and purification technologies development of value-added applications as well as formulation of novel products.