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Drug Discovery

Soxhlet Extraction

This set-up is used for continuous extraction of plant principles using a smaller quantity of solvent. Invented in 1879 by Franz Von Soxhlet, this was originally used for extracting lipids from solid materials. In natural products research, this is used up to this day as a more efficient method of extraction compared to a regular distillation set-up.

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