“…Boronic acids can bind with compounds containing cis ‐diol moieties with high affinity through reversible ester formation in alkaline conditions, while dissociations occur in acidic conditions, thus boronic acids have specific selectivity for the cis ‐diol‐containing compounds (Wang et al, , , ; Li and Liu, ). Boronate affinity adsorption has been broadly used for isolation/enrichment of hydrophilic molecules containing cis ‐diols (Wang et al, , , ; Li et al ., ; Cetinkaya et al ., ). However, the traditional boronate affinity adsorption has seldom been applied to hydrophobic molecules, owing to their poor solubility in aqueous solutions (Wang et al, , , ).…”