Extracting the Essence of Cinnamon - Cinnamaldehyde
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- In today's video we will be extracting cinnamaldehyde from the bark of the cinnamon tree. This exercise was done to create cinnamaldehyde for a precursor reagent to the famous cinnamaldehyde clock reaction, which I plan on doing here soon. The cinnamaldehyde is essentially the base of the common cinnamon oil. We use the method of hydro-distillation within this fun chemistry project.
Warning: Cinnamaldehyde will burn skin similar to an acid. It is a must, that proper PPE be worn a all times.
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I'll always be to sketched out to store DCM hahaha
Why in some of your videos do you use sodium chloride to separate oils from water, but in this case your using DCM. Do you have to use a different solvent for every kind of oil that you are trying to extract?
Really great question. It’s all about solubility of the oil within the solvent. I will always research which solvents have a higher solubility, which allows me to do Liquid / Liquid extractions. In this case the cinnamaldehyde was more soluble in the DCM than the water, which allowed the oil to be pulled into the DCM.
I have a few charts I could send over of my findings if needed so you could see which solvents I prefer depending on the oil
@@PrestonImpx hi I would love a copy of this solvent/oil chart you’ve put together. Where can I find it?
What can be used instead of DCM?
It all depends on the solvent. You could probably use DCMO or ether. Though I would have to confirm that.
@@PrestonImpx What is DCMO? Can ester be used?
Ether should be able to be used. DCMO is carboxin I believe.
@@PrestonImpx Thank you. But I asked, can eSTer be used.
@@illya.ruslanovichshevchenk4106 After some research, looking at solubility and pKa I dont think esters would work. However I could be wrong.