Natural Products and Medicinal Plants Research

Chromatography

Chromatography is a process for the separation of compounds from the mixtures.  The separation and characterization of bioactive compounds from plant extract is the crucial step in the study of phytochemicals. Over the past few years, the applications of Liquid Chromatography coupled with Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) in natural product analysis have been dramatically growing because of the increasingly improved separation and detection capabilities of LC/MS instruments. In particular, novel high-resolution hybrid instruments linked to ultra-High-Performance LC and the hyphenations of LC–MS with other separation or analytical techniques greatly aid unequivocal identification and highly sensitive quantification of natural products at trace concentrations in complex matrices.

The Chromatography industry is showing growth rapidly, with value expected to hit 228 billion dollars by 2016, up from 164 US billion dollars in the year of earlier 2010, growing annual growth of nearly 7%, according to a recent industrial marketing research report. Geographically, global separation technique market has been segmented into four areas namely, North America, some parts of European region, Asia-Pacific and Rest of the World. The global gas chromatography market, valued at $2,583.6 million in earlier 2014, is possibility to march up to $3,605.1 US million by 2019 at a CAGR of 6.9%.This global market report categorizes the market into 3 wide segments, like, Instrumentation, Accessories & Consumables, and Reagents.