“…In view of this, reactive cxtraction has been extensively studied for penicillin-(; (Likidis et al, 1987;Schugerl, 1984, 1985); cephalosporin-C ; clavulanic acid, penicillin G and V, amoxicillin and phenyl acetic acid (Harris et al, 1990), etc. Furthermore, the concept has been exploited to develop liquid membrane processes where facilitated transport could be realised to give high flux and selectivity (Thien et al, 1990;Lee et al, 1993Likidis and Schugerl, 1987;Lee and Lee, 1992;Ghosh et al, 1995;Sahoo et al, 1996). Various aspects of extraction and purification of beta-lactam antibiotics in general and the liquid membrane process in particular have been recently reviewed by the authors (Ghosh et al, 1996(Ghosh et al, , 1997.…”