Ghayth

Dr Rigane Ghayth is an Assistance Professor works in University of Kairouan and Laboratory of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sfax in Tunisia. Dr Ghayth has done research in Food Chemistry, Phytochemistry as well as spectroscopy (NMR, MS, UV, IR). Dr Ghayth had the opportunity to work and collaborate with several research groups contributing in the overall understanding of the separation, identification and characterisation of bioactive compounds isolated olive from by-product and valorisation of Tunisian medicinal plants, as well as the development of new methods applied in the fields of the environment and the food industry.

• Study of the antioxidant activity of plant extracts as well as pure products.
• Assays of total phenols, Flavonoids, Flavonols present in plant extracts.
• Purification of pure products from a plant extract.
• Use of different chromatographic techniques.
• Analysis of HPLC chromatograms.
• Analysis of UV and IR spectra.
• Identification of compounds from MS1 and MS2 mass spectra.
• Analyzes of proton and carbon-13 NMR spectra (1D and 2D).
• Organic Synthesis.
• Analysis of the quality of olive oils.
• Cultivation of olive trees.
• Extraction of olive oils.
• Medicinal plants