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Separating organic compound from oily solution
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CroLifter:
Hello,
So i am presented with an issue. I received an oily solution which allegedly contains xxx mg of organic compound, esterified hormone in an oily solution (olive oil).
I need to somehow extract that compound and then weigh it on a precision scale, to measure how much of the compound is really inside the solution.
But i have no idea how to go about it. I tried to research online but didnt find anything on pulling the compounds out of oils.
Solution comes in 1ml glass containers.
Help is appreciated
AWK:
Gel chromatography?
wildfyr:
I'll expand on AWK's comment, run a silica gel column as described here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_chromatography
It is a technique well suited for separating several nonpolar components.
CroLifter:
The good thing is that it is only one compound in one solvent.
hypervalent_iodine:
Is it possible to use analytical techniques to assess how much you have in there? Something like GCMS would be much more precise and accurate than physically extracting and weighing it.
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