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Separation Of Converting Protonated Caffeine From Tea Bag

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In this experiment, we extracted caffeine from a tea bag. First, we had to convert protonated caffeine in tea leaves back to the free base form. So in a 30 mL beaker, we added 30 mL water and 2 g sodium carbonate and after boiling the water we immerged a tea bag in the hot water for about 5 minutes. After the tea bag was slightly cool we squeezed the tea bag to remove all water and caffeine using a funnel and back of a test tube. After that, we again brought the water to boil and immerged another tea bag for another 5 minutes and same technique was used to squeeze the tea bag again. We boiled excess water and poured the solution in a centrifuge tube. We cooled the mixture in an ice bath and after that using 2 mL portion of dichloromethane we

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