University of Tasmania

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Chemistry

Employing Pressurized Hot Water Extraction (PHWE) to Explore Natural Products Chemistry in the Undergraduate Laboratory

Curtis C. Ho¹, Bianca J. Deans^*1, Jeremy Just^*1, Gregory G. Warr², Shane Wilkinson², Jason A. Smith¹, Alex C. Bissember¹

¹School of Natural Sciences - Chemistry, University of Tasmania, ²School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney

Here, we employ a pressurized hot water extraction (PHWE) method, which utilizes an unmodified household espresso machine to introduce undergraduates to natural products chemistry in the laboratory. Two experiments are presented: PHWE of eugenol and acetyleugenol from cloves and PHWE of seselin and (+)-epoxysuberosin from the Australian plant Correa reflexa.