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Phytochemical Analysis by Modern Techniques: Recent Trends and Future Perspectives offers cutting-edge qualitative and quantitative methods. Beginning with an overview of conventional and modern extraction strategies used in phytochemical analysis, the book builds upon this knowledge by outlining state-of-the art modern techniques including vibrational spectroscopy and hyphenated HPLC-MS. The book emphasizes detailed, reproducible methods and real-world case studies, making the techniques accessible to readers from neighboring scientific fields. In addition to extraction strategies and modern techniques, the book covers metabolomics and diverse analytical tools to enhance holistic understanding of phytochemical analysis.
It is an ideal resource for researchers, students, and professionals in analytical chemistry, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, natural product research, ethnopharmacology, and food chemistry.
List of contents
1. Phytochemicals and their analysis: An overview
2. Phytochemical extraction strategies: conventional and modern methods
3. Qualitative analysis of phytochemicals: Destructive and non-destructive methods
4. Non-destructive qualitative analysis of phytochemicals: Hyper spectral imagining-based methods
5. HPTLC-MS: Promising qualitative analysis method of phytochemicals
6. Quantitative analysis of phytochemicals: An overview
7. Mass spectrometry-based methods for accurate and selective analysis of phytochemicals
8. Vibrational spectroscopic methods combined with chemometrics for phytochemical analysis
9. Sensor-based phytochemical analysis methods
10. LC-MS-based metabolomics: Targeted and untargeted analysis of phytochemicals
11. GC-MS-based metabolomics-An effective method for qualitative and quantitative analysis of phytochemicals
12. NMR-based metabolomics in phytochemical research
13. Volatilomics: A promising approach for qualitative and quantitative analysis of plant volatile
14. Applications of phytochemical analysis methods in ethnopharmacology, nutritional biochemistry, food and agricultural research
About the author
Dr. Kasote is a chemist and biochemist by training. He earned his Master's in Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Chemistry from India. Dr. Kasote has more than 12 years of post-doctoral experience in the analysis of phytochemicals within the interface of multidisciplinary research areas such as plant science, food chemistry, natural product chemistry/phytochemistry, and nutritional biochemistry. His core expertise lies in chromatography, spectroscopy, and metabolomics. Currently, Dr. Kasote is working as a Research Associate at Qatar University (QU). Qatar. Before joining QU, Dr. Kasote worked in various prestigious institutes in the USA (Texas A&M University, North Carolina State University, and the University of Missouri), UK (University of Aberdeen), South Africa (Tshwane University of Technology), South Korea (Yeungnam University) and India (Agharkar Research Institute and Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University). Dr. Kasote has contributed significantly to interdisciplinary research, publishing around 50 research articles, reviews, and book chapters, often as a lead author.
Dr. Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni is a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Advanced Materials, Qatar University. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of South Brittany, France, and completed postdoctoral research at Inha University, South Korea, and Qatar University. His expertise spans analytical chemistry, nanomaterials, and interdisciplinary research involving collaborations across computer science, biomedical sciences, and engineering disciplines. He holds multiple patents and serves as lead investigator on several major research projects funded by the Qatar National Research Fund and Qatar University.
Dr. Alsafran obtained his PhD at Newcastle University, UK and Currently, he is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Agricultural Research Station (ARS) at Qatar University. He has an interdisciplinary research background, and his areas of research interest include phytochemistry, sustainable dryland agriculture, plant stress Physiology, biodiversity, and ecosystems. Dr. Alsafran has many scientific researches published internationally in his field of specialization as well as he has strongly participated in many research projects and grants as Principle Investigator or Co-Principle Investigator.
Dr. Lei is currently an assistant director of the MU metabolomics center and an assistant research professor of biochemistry. He obtained his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA in 2002, and then took a postdoctoral research fellow position at the Noble Research Institute in Ardmore, OK, USA, where he was promoted to a Research Scientist three years later. He moved to the University of Missouri (MU) in 2016 to direct a Metabolomics Center. Dr. Lei is an experienced researcher in phytochemistry and natural products. He applied advanced liquid and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC/GC-MS) to chemically characterize different phytochemicals in various plant species. He has the expertise and hands-on experience in LC/GC-MS-based metabolomics including experimental design, data collection, data processing, data analysis, and interpretation, library, and database construction. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts.
