title: Natural product analysis over the last decades.
abstract: Progress in natural product chemistry has always been strongly linked to innovations in analytical technology. The characterisation of metabolites in complex mixtures requires sophisticated techniques, which should provide good sensitivity and selectivity as well as structural information on the constituents of interest. This review outlines the most important chromatographic and spectral techniques which have been introduced in the field of natural products. Although there has been a very rapid evolution of methods over the last 50 years, the introduction of high-throughput screening programmes require even more efficient and sensitive methodologies which yield adequate on-line information for metabolite structure determination.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marston
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hostettmann
mesh_terms: D001688:Biological Products / Q000737:chemistry*; D056246:Chemistry, Analytic / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods; D002845:Chromatography / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods*; D029001:Herbal Medicine / Q000379:methods; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000737:chemistry; D013057:Spectrum Analysis / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products