Discuss the extraction, isolation and purification of Glycyrrhizinic acid.
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extraction
A technique for separating components in a mixture that have different solubilities. For example, caffeine can be separated from coffee beans by washing the beans with supercritical fluid carbon dioxide; the caffeine dissolves in the carbon dioxide but flavor compounds do not. Vanillin can be extracted from vanilla beans by shaking the beans with an organic solvent, like ethanol.
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acid
Because a free H+ ion is technically a bare proton, acids are sometimes referred to as "proton donors" because they release hydrogen ions in solution. The term "proton donor" is misleading, since in aqueous solution, the hydrogen ion is never a bare proton- it's covalently bound to a water molecule as an H3O+ ion. Further, acids don't "donate" protons; they yield them to bases with a stronger affinity for them.
Explanation:
Solvent extraction of glycyrrhizic acid (GA) from liquorice leaching solution was studied with tributyl phosphate, trialkylphosphine oxide, n-hexanol and 2-ethyl-hexanol as extractants. The results showed that GA was easily extracted into the organic phase in molecular state by the formation of hydrogen bond.