Catalysis

Salt (chemistry)

Lithium (medication)

Distillation

Chromatography

Flos

Rutin

Essential oil

Lithium chloride

Endocrinology

Inorganic chemistry

Chloride

Extraction (chemistry)

Organic chemistry

Antioxidant

Medicine

Chemistry

Ionic liquid

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

In this study, an ionic liquids (ILs) based extraction approach has been successfully applied to the extraction of essential oil from Farfarae Flos, and the effect of lithium chloride was also investigated. The results indicated that the oil yields can be increased by the ILs, and the extraction time can be reduced significantly (from 4 h to 2 h), compared with the conventional water distillation. The addition of lithium chloride showed different effect according to the structures of ILs, and the oil yields may be related with the structure of cation, while the chemical compositions of essential oil may be related with the anion. The reduction of extraction time and remarkable higher efficiency (5.41–62.17% improved) by combination of lithium salt and proper ILs supports the suitability of the proposed approach.

Effect of lithium salts addition on the ionic liquid based extraction of essential oil from Farfarae Flos