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Extracting caffeine
« on: January 08, 2020, 07:24:39 AM »
Hello everyone, im kind of new to this forum. i have this powder, in this powder there's sorbitol and caffeine mixed together, i have been trying to find a way to extract the caffeine from the sorbitol. Do you guys have any recommendations on how i could do this ?

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Re: Extracting caffeine
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2020, 04:44:16 PM »
I believe sorbitol is mostly insoluble in organic solvents, so a simple trituration with something like DCM should do it.

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