Phytochemicals for Health

Description:

Phytochemicals for Health presents the state of the art in the field of Phytochemicals. It highlights how, following the interactions of plants and the environment, an analytical approach for standardization and quality control is of fundamental importance to product quality control.

Parts I and II cover the main problems relatied to natural products (plants, extraction, quantitative analysis, relationship with the surrounding environment). Part III presents the main classes of organic compounds identified and reported, and Part IV includes inorganic compounds. It also includes a chapter covering all the natural compounds that have become Active Principle Ingredients (API), highlighting next challenges.

Phytochemicals for Health is a valuable tool for senior scientists working in natural products field interested in investigating the correlation between chemical profile and biological activity in order to obtain a product that is safe for human health.

Features:

• Covers extraction, purification and isolation methods of the active compounds in plants
• Highlights characterization and analysis of main organic and inorganic components
• Analyses the effect of the environment on the natural product
• Discusses standardization and quality control fundamental for the development of new products with beneficial activity on human health

Table Of Contents:

PART 1: fundamentals in phytochemistry

1. Introduction

2. Biosynthesis of primary and secondary metabolites

3. Role of active ingredients in human health

PART 2: chemical and biological aspects

4. From Plants to extracts

5. From extracts to quantitative analyses

6. From quantitative analyses to biological activities

7. Role of the plant-environment interaction

8. New active principle ingredient (API)

PART 3: organic phytochemicals state of the art

9. Alkaloids

10. Terpenoids

11. Phenolic compounds

12. Essential metals

13. Non-essential metals

PART 4: inorganic compounds state of the art

14. Essential metals

15. Non-essential metals