Characterization and Identification of Medicinal Compounds

Due to the sheer unparalleled abundance of chemical variety, natural products derived from medicinal plants, whether as pure compounds or standardised extracts, give limitless prospects for new therapeutic leads. Interest in edible plants has developed around the world as a result of a growing demand for chemical diversity in screening programmes and a desire to find therapeutic medications from natural sources. Bioactive substances can be found in botanicals and herbal medicines for medical use. Because plant extracts are frequently a mixture of different types of bioactive compounds or phytochemicals with varied polarity, separating them remains a significant difficulty in the identification and characterization of bioactive substances. To obtain pure molecules, a variety of separation techniques such as TLC, column chromatography, flash chromatography, Sephadex chromatography, and HPLC are commonly utilised in the extraction of these bioactive chemicals. The structure and biological activity of the pure chemicals are then determined.

• Active Principles
• Chemometrics
• Chromatography
• Extraction
• Isolation
• Mass Spectrometry
• Medicinal Plants
• Organic Acids
• Polyphenolic Compounds
• Purification
• Spectroscopy
• Volatile Compounds