Solvent-free microwave extraction coupled with headspace single-drop microextraction of essential oils from flower of Eugenia caryophyllata Thunb.

✍ Scribed by Chunzhu Jiang; Ying Sun; Xiaonan Zhu; Yan Gao; Liying Wang; Jian Wang; Liwei Wu; Daqian Song

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 213 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1615-9306
• DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201000148

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Solvent‐free microwave extraction coupled with headspace single‐drop microextraction was developed for extracting the essential oils from Eugenia caryophyllata Thunb. Carbonyl iron powders were mixed with the sample to extract essential oils from the dried plant materials and single‐drop solvent was used to simultaneously extract essential oils from the headspace. The single‐drop of decane was suspended from the tip of a microsyringe and exposed to the headspace above the sample. After the extraction was finished, the single‐drop was injected into gas chromatographic system and analyzed by GC‐MS. The effects of the experimental parameters, including microwave power, microwave irradiation time, the ratio of carbonyl iron powder to sample, extraction solvent, single‐drop volume and extraction time, were investigated. Sixteen compounds in the essential oils of E. caryophyllata T. were obtained and identified. The constituents of essential oils obtained by hydro‐distillation and solvent‐free microwave extraction–headspace single‐drop microextraction were not obviously different. Compared with hydro‐distillation, the proposed method required shorter extraction time and less amount of the sample.