This document summarizes the extraction and quantification of artemisinin from the plant Artemisia annua. The plant material is extracted using solvents like methanol, hexane, and ethyl acetate. The extract is then partitioned and purified through chromatography. Artemisinin content is estimated using two methods - TLC densitometry and HPLC. Both methods involve developing a calibration curve to determine the concentration of artemisinin in the test samples. Artemisinin extracted from A. annua is used effectively to treat malaria and other diseases.

2. PLANT PROFILESYNONYM : Sweet worm wood,sweet annie, sweet sagewort, annual mugwort or annual wormwood
BIOLOGICAL SOURCE : Leaves and the closed, unexpanded flower heads of Artemisia annua
FAMILY : Asteraceae/ Compositae
ACTIVE CONSTITUENT : Artemisinin, dihydro artemisisnin, artemisin, artemisic acid
USES : Effective against malaria & cerebral malaria
Hepatitis B
Schistosomiasis (caused by schistosomes)
Several blood parasitic protozoans
Against a variety of cancer cell lines including breast cancer
• Human leukemia
• Colon
• Small-cell lung carcinomas
• Drug-resistant cancers

3. •Artemisinin semi-synthetic derivatives are a group of drugs used against plasmodium species
(P. Falciparum, P. Malariae, P. Ovale and P. Vivax.)
•Chemically, artemisinin is a sesquiterpene lactone containing an unusual peroxide bridge.
REQUIREMENTS
•Raw material
•Solvents ( methanol, n-hexane, n-heptane, benzene, toluene, chloroform, methylene
dichloride, ethyl acetate, acetone, acetonitrile …)
•Magnetic stirrer …
Extraction can be done by 2 ways;-
a. Soxhlet extraction
b. Microwave-assisted extraction

4. The raw material used is plant artemisia annua L. The plant was dried and mashed into powder. The chemicals used
are methanol, hexane, and ethyl acetate.
EXTRACTION
100 grams of powder herb artemisia annua
Macerated using methanol solvent (Erlenmeyer with a magnetic stirrer speed of 700 rpm for 1 hour)
This process is done many times until the methanol layer is colorless
The extract then was evaporated (using a rotavapor vacuum at a temperature of 40 ° C)
Until the extract volume to 100 ml.

5. PARTITION OF EXTRACT
Partition the extract using 50 ml hexane
Partitioning done many times until hexane layer become colorless
Two layers got from this process
1. hexane extracts (non-polar fraction) 2. methanol extracts
the methanol extract obtained was added 10 ml of distilled water
partitioned again using 50 ml of ethyl acetate
Partitioning done many times until the ethyl acetate layer is colourless
Again we get 2 layers
1.ethyl acetate extract (semipolar fraction) 2.methanol-water extract (polar fraction)
Each extract was concentrated using a rotavapor at a temperature of 40˚c.

6. SOXHLET EXTRACTION AND TEST SAMPLE PREPARATION
100 mg of fine powder was placed into an extraction thimble
extracted with 170 ml of solvent via hot soxhlet extraction method for 6 hours over a water bath
The extract was evaporated and redissolved in 5 ml methanol
10 μl of these test solutions was used for quantification purpose.

7. MICROWAVE-ASSISTED EXTRACTION AND TEST SAMPLE PREPARATION
• 100 mg of fine powder was extracted under the influence of microwave energy using solvents
• Extraction parameters (160 watts, 120 s, 10 ml per extraction cycle, two extraction cycles, and cleanup with 2 ml
of corresponding solvent at the end of second cycle of extraction)
• For microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) the same parameters should be followed for every solvent
• The extract thus obtained was evaporated and redissolved in 5 ml methanol
• 10 μl of these test solutions was used for quantification purpose.

8. ESTIMATIONS
By 2 methods:-
• TLC Densitometer
• HPTLC method
• TLC METHOD
Mobile phase – ethyl Acetate: hexane (3:97)
Stationary phase -- 60 F254 silica gel
Detecting reagent -- anisaldehyde-sulphuric acid reagent
Spot volume -- 10 μL of test and standard sample spots
Spot colour -- Pink-colored spots of artemisinin
Room temp. -- 25 +- 2˚C
Relative humidity -- 45+- 2%

9. • A simple TLC-densitometric technique has been developed for the rapid and accurate analysis of artemisinin in a
large number of Artemisia annua plantlets
• at 540 610 nm using tungsten lamp
• Values are plotted in calibration curve (con Vs spot area)
• Extrapolating the graph to x axis give concentration of test sample

10. HPLC METHOD
• EQUIPMENT MODEL -- WATERS 501
• COLUMN -- WATERS C18
• DETECTOR -- UV 260 nm
• MOBILE PHASE -- phosphate buffer : methanol (6:4) – PH – 7.9
• FLOW RATE -- 1ml/min
Calibration curve was plotted with diff conc

11. SPECIFIC SHEET
• Description -- colour less needles / white crystalline powder, odourless
• Identification -- TLC/ HPLC with std
• Molecular formula -- C15H22O5
• Molecular wt -- 282.3
• Solubility -- partially insoluble in water
very soluble in dichloromethane
freely soluble methanol, ethanol
• MP -- 151-154 c
• LOSS ON DRYING -- NMT 0.5%
• STORAGE -- Tightly closed container

12. REFERENCE
•Http://onlinelibrary.Wiley.Com/doi/10.1002/pca.976/abstract
•Https://www.Hindawi.Com/journals/cri/2014/361405/
•Wikipidea.Org
•Herbal Drug formulation, Paridhavi

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