Resumen de Leaching of active ingredients from plants with tonic liquids

Anja Resemann, Katharina Bica

• Recently, there was a tremendous interest in the use of ionic liquids for cost-effective and environmentally friendly dissolution and processing of biomass as diverse as cellulose, chitin, and wood. There are several aspects of ionic liquids that are potentially advantageous for the leaching of active ingredient isolation: Tonic liquids are not only a suitable extraction media for valuable components from plant matter but do allow a better access to the active ingredient via dissolution of the biomass that cannot be obtained with traditional solvents. We report the benefits of ionic liquids for the extraction of valuable ingredients including important pharmaceutical intermediates and essential oils from plant materials and discuss different isolation strategies as well as the recovery of the ionic liquids.