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Offline yeahbuddy

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acetic acid removal from acid product
« on: July 13, 2009, 03:16:32 PM »

I'm prepping a compound from literature, and the ref. calls for purification on silica using DCM/MeOH/AcOH as mobile phase. The compound looks OK but there is tons of AcOH and MeOH still present by NMR, even after 3 days on high vac. Is there a trick for removal of AcOH similar to azeotroping water away with toluene? Extraction is not an option as the desired product is also a carboxylate. Moreover, the next step is to amidate the carboxy group, so I think I need to remove the acetic acid.

Any advice appreciated!

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Re: acetic acid removal from acid product
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2009, 06:16:59 AM »
try here:

http://eweb.chemeng.ed.ac.uk/chem_eng/azeotrope_bank.html

I'd suggest toluene or xylene.
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