Essentials of Botanical Extraction: Principles and Applications

✍ Scribed by Subhash C. Mandal, Vivekananda Mandal, Anup Kumar Das

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Essentials of Botanical Extraction: Principles and Applications provides a unique, single source of valuable information on the various botanical extraction methods available, from conventional to the use of green and modern extraction technologies including ultrasounds, microwaves, pressurized liquids, and supercritical fluids. Most extracts obtained from botanicals are often poorly characterized with unidentified active or inactive constituents. A wise selection of an extraction strategy is vital to drug discovery from medicinal plants as extraction forms the basic first step in medicinal plant research. This book also explores the mathematical hypotheses and innovations in botanical extractions and analyzes different post extraction operations so that dependency on serendipity is reduced and the same be converted into programmed drug discovery.

• Reviews the history and current state of natural product drug discovery and development, highlighting successes and current issues
• Explains the application of chemometric tools in extraction process design and method development
• Introduces process intensification as applied to the processing of medicinal plant extracts for rapid and cost-effective extraction

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Foreword by Sarker, Page xi
Foreword by Verpoorte, Page xiii
Preface, Pages xv-xvi
Chapter 1 - Introduction, Pages 1-6
Chapter 2 - History and Background on the Use of Natural Products Obtained from Plants as Therapeutic Agents, Pages 7-17
Chapter 3 - Botanicals as a Screening Source of New Drugs: Past Success Stories and Present-Day Concerns, Pages 19-33
Chapter 4 - What All Should Know about Plant Drugs, Pages 35-61
Chapter 5 - Extraction of Botanicals, Pages 63-82
Chapter 6 - Classification of Extraction Methods, Pages 83-136
Chapter 7 - Innovative Extraction Process Design and Optimization Using Design of Experimental Approach, Pages 137-163
Chapter 8 - Identification Strategies of Phytocompounds, Pages 165-171
Chapter 9 - Qualitative Phytochemical Screening, Pages 173-185
Chapter 10 - Profiling Crude Extracts for Rapid Identification of Bioactive Compounds, Pages 187-201
Index, Pages 203-207