Progress in Volatile Organic Compounds Research III
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Flavours and Fragrances".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: volatile organic compounds (terpenes, norisoprenoids, aliphatic and aromatic compounds, others); glycosidically bound volatiles; chemical biomarkers; chemical biodiversity; gas chromatography and mass spectrometry; organic chemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of the first and second editions of the Special Issue “Progress in Volatile Organic Compound Research”, we have decided that it is both timely and pertinent to launch a third edition. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with different origins have been intensively investigated in recent years: plant/marine algae secondary metabolites, food/beverage aromas, fungal/bacterial volatiles, and others. Naturally occurring VOCs are more or less complex mixtures of monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, norisoprenoids, aliphatic/aromatic compounds, sulfur- or nitrogen-containing compounds, and others. They are formed through different biochemical pathways, and can be modified or created (artefacts) during drying or maturation, thermal treatment, etc. Different conventional or innovative methods of VOC isolation followed by analysis with chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques (most often mass spectrometry) provide different VOC chemical profiles. Chemical biomarkers of botanical origin or chemotaxonomic markers or essential oil chemotypes can be found. Among others, ecological interactions are mediated by VOCs (inter- and intraorganismic communication), and they can act as pheromones, attractants or allelochemicals. Many VOCs possess different biological activities, such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, antiviral, anticancer, and others.
Although the successful previous Issues did an excellent job in covering many of these issues, there is still a great need to report VOCs from different sources, and to discover and communicate their distribution, chemical profiles and individual compounds. This Special Issue, “Progress in Volatile Organic Compound Research III”, aims to attract up-to-date contributions on all aspects of VOC chemistry (e.g., challenges in their isolation/extraction, analysis/structure determination, synthesis) and on unlocking their biological activities or other useful properties.
Dr. Igor Jerković
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- volatile organic compounds
- essential oils
- headspace compounds
- modern methods of volatiles isolation, analysis or synthesis
- chemical or chemotaxonomic biomarkers
- pheromones, attractants, alleochemicals
- biological activity
- GC&ndash
- MS
