Green Extraction Tree: A Novel Tool to Greenness Metric for Green Extraction of Natural Products.

ABSTRACT: A comprehensive and intuitive evaluation tool, termed the Green Extraction Tree (GET), has been developed to assess the greenness of the sample preparation process in the green extraction of natural products. The assessment criteria integrate the 10 principles of green sample preparation with the 6 principles of green extraction of natural products, encompassing the entire natural product extraction process, including samples, solvents and reagents, energy consumption, byproducts and waste, process risk, and extract quality. The GET employs a "tree" pictogram to classify and evaluate the greenness of various aspects of the natural product extraction process, using three different color markers (green, yellow, red) to represent three distinct levels of environmental impact (low, medium, hig

SUBMITTER: Fan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12593995 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature