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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry Volume 2012, Article ID 302059, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/302059 Research Article Application of Ionic Liquids in the Microwave-Assisted Extraction of Pectin from Lemon Peels Huang Guolin,1 Shi Jeffrey,2 Zhang Kai,1 and Huang Xiaolan2 1 Key Laboratory of Radioactive Geology and Exploration Technology Fundamental Science for National Defense, East China Institute of Technology, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi 344000, China 2 School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Correspondence should be addressed to Huang Guolin, guolinhuang@ Received 16 November 2011; Revised 22 December 2011; Accepted 26 December 2011 Academic Editor: Antony C. Calokerinos Copyright © 2012 Huang Guolin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Microwave-assisted extraction of pectin from lemon peels by using ionic liquid as alternative solvent was investigated. The extracted pectin was detected by Fourier transform infrared spectra. The extraction conditions were optimized through the different experiments in conjunction with the response surface methodology. A pectin yield of 24.68 % was obtained under the optimal parameters: the extraction temperature of 88◦C, the extraction time of 9.6 min, and a liquid-solid ratio of 22.7 ml · g−1. The structure of the pretreated lemon peel samples and the samples after microwave-assisted extraction were characterized by a field emission scanning electron microscope. 1. Introduction ha