Aqueous ionic liquid based ultrasonic assisted extraction of eight ginsenosides from ginseng root.

Hongmei Lin, Yonggang Zhang, Mei Han, Limin Yang

College of Chinese Medicinal Material, Jilin Agricultural University, 130118 Changchun, China.

Ultrasonics sonochemistry 2013 Mar

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We developed an aqueous ionic liquid based ultrasonic assisted extraction (ILUAE) method for the extraction of the eight ginsenosides (ginsenoside-Rg1, -Re, -Rf, -Rb1, -Rc, -Rb2, -Rb3 and -Rd) from ginseng root. A series of l-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium ionic liquids differing in composition of anions and cations were evaluated for extraction efficiency. The results indicated that the ILUAE method has a remarkable ability to improve the extraction efficiency of ginsenosides. In addition, the ILUAE procedure was also optimized on some ultrasonic parameters, such as the IL concentration, solvent to solid ratio and extraction time. Under these optimal conditions (e.g., with 0.3M [C(3)MIM]Br, solvent to solid ratio of 10:1 and extraction time of 20min), this approach gained the highest extraction yields of total ginsenosides 17.81±0.47mg/g. Compared with the regular UAE, the proposed approach exhibited 3.16 times higher efficiency and 33% shorter extraction time, which indicated that ILUAE has a broad prospect for sample preparation of medicinal plants. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Hongmei Lin, Yonggang Zhang, Mei Han, Limin Yang. Aqueous ionic liquid based ultrasonic assisted extraction of eight ginsenosides from ginseng root. Ultrasonics sonochemistry. 2013 Mar;20(2):680-4