Study on the Extraction of Active Ingredients from Walnut Leaves and Their Mosquito Repellent Activities
In order to screen walnut leaf extracts with strong potency and mosquito repellent effects,ultrasound-assisted hydrodistillation was applied to extract'J.regia Wen185''C.cathayensis''J.nigra'and'J.regia Shisheng'leaf volatile oil.With the extraction rate of volatile oil from walnut leaves as the index,orthogonal experiments were conducted on the basis of single-factor experiments to derive the best extraction conditions of volatile oil from walnut leaves,and combined with the mosquito repellent test,the best repellent content of 4 walnut leaf extracts were screened with the repellent rate as the index.It was shown that the best extraction conditions for the extraction of volatile oil from'J.nigra'leaves by ultrasound-assisted water distillation were 8 h,10 min of ultrasound time,and 1:10(g·mL-1)solid-liquid ratio.Under these conditions,the extraction rate of volatile oil of walnut leaves was 0.475%.Using anhydrous ethanol as the solvent,the mosquito repellent rate of the solutions of four kinds of walnut leaf volatile oil extract solutions were measured under dilution of 10%,20%,30%and 40%.The mosquito repellent effect time of'J.nigra'leaf volatile oil extract solution could reach 20 min at 30%content,and when the repellent rate was 85.18%,the repellent effect was the best.Vaporized oil extract solution of'J.nigra'leaves had good mosquito repellent effect and had the potential to be developed as a plant-derived repellent,which was worthy of further promotion and application.
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