Open AccessChemical processing of raw florets of dyer's saffron and successful extraction of a resulting product (carthamin): an approach to improve conventional methods
Author(s) -
Koshi Saito,
Masatoshi Katsukura
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta societatis botanicorum poloniae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2083-9480
pISSN - 0001-6977
DOI - 10.5586/asbp.1992.035
Subject(s) - chemistry , pyridine , extraction (chemistry) , solvent extraction , solvent , ammonia , nuclear chemistry , acetic acid , chromatography , organic chemistry
Efficacy of KMnO4 on processing red florets of dyer's saffron was examined in the presence of micromolar concentrations of the metal salts. Apparent value for KMnO4 determined by double-reciprocal plots was 126 µM, whose value corresponds to a 1/154-fold of dried florets. Successful extraction of red carthamin was performed by using the processed matters with various solvent systems. HCl/NaOH, acetic acid/ammonia water and pyridine/methanol were found to be effective. For purification of carthamin, the cellulose adsorption technique was very promising. The data are assessed to standarize the new technique