Extraction of Piperine from Black pepper.
Piperine is made up of 5-9%of alkaloid that also include piperidine, piperitine, piperanine. And come from fruit of aschanti. Piperine is soluble in organic solvent so by using dichloromethane we can extract in more quantity. Requirements:- Black pepper, Dichloromethane, round bottom flask, water condenser, beaker, mortor pistle. Procedure:- 1.Take 10 g of black pepper and make powder of it with the help of mortor and pistle. 2.Then add 20mL of dichloromethane in a round bottom flask and put on magnetic stirrer. 3.Attach a water condenser at the top of the flask and alow the water to run through it to condense the CH2Cl2 vapour while refluxing the solution for 20 minutes. 4.Cool down the flask and then filter the solution and dry the ground and wash with CH2Cl2 and take small volume of it use for TLC. 5.Then note down the melting point it. Melting point of Pipperine :- 133°C.