Lab 3 SCC 251 Isolation of Caffeine from Tea Leaves

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Lab 3 SCC 251 Isolation of Caffeine from Tea Leaves Organic Chemistry I SCC 251 Abstract:
In today’s lab we will extract all the caffein from black tea leaves. Extraction is a common technique that is used to isolate a target compound from a solid or liquid mixture by using an appropriate solvent. We will use a melting point to make sure we have pure caffeine as our final product. In this extraction we had a Separation of layers, which was successful, we were able to obtain an organic layer with caffeine. After obtaining the organic layer. We fully dried and crystalized the product. When fully drying product we tested the melting point making sure it was similar to literature value Protocol: 1. Start a hot water bath to start caffeine extraction using a hot plate 2. Use 250mL beaker, add 30mL of H 2 O and 2 tea bags (Stock Solution) 3. Brew solution on hot plate make sure that water doesn’t escape. 4. After brewing put tea into separation funnel 5. Add 2mL of CH 2 CI 2 into the separation funnel of stock solution, 6. Solution will start to separate into two different layers, one layer would be the organic layer and the second layer would be the tea. 7. Extract the organic layer in a separate beaker. 8. Repeat steps 5-7 two more times in order to have 6mL of Organic and caffeine. 9. Place organic solute in a Buchner funnel to dry and obtain caffeine crystals. 10. After fully drying caffeine teste for melting point Figure 1. Caffeine structure Results: After the protocol is performed and the purified caffeine is extracted successfully, we verify its purity by taking the melting point and comparing it to literature value. An accurate melting is close
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