World record…?

Extraction of very polar and water-soluble compounds is a great challenge, because they tend to stay in the aqueous sample for solubility reasons. Although extraction is supported by an electrical field in electromembrane extraction (EME), polar substances are difficult even with EME. Our job is to address such challenges, and therefore we are currently developing EME for very polar endogenous metabolites and pharmaceuticals. One example is streptomycin, an antibiotic drug. Recently, we extracted this compound successfully with EME, and as far as we know, this is the most polar substance ever extracted with EME!

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Electromembrane extraction of streptomycin from biological fluids

Frederik André Hansen and Stig Pedersen-Bjergaard

Journal of Chromatography A 1639 (2021) 461915

Published Feb. 17, 2021 11:21 AM - Last modified Feb. 17, 2021 11:27 AM