extracted caffeine by using chloroform and magnesium sulfate to dehydrate the organic phase. I got crude caffeine just by solvent evaporation at room temperature. However, I wanted to conduct Raman spectroscopy measurements but I did not get the characteristic peaks. I think that it has to be whit chloroform presence due to its fluorescence. So I let the crude caffeine 24h drying at 65 degrees but still I did not get any peak. What can I use to rinse my crude caffeine extract to remove all chloroform molecules? Or what is wrong with my extraction

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I extracted caffeine by using chloroform and magnesium sulfate to dehydrate the organic phase. I got crude caffeine just by solvent evaporation at room temperature. However, I wanted to conduct Raman spectroscopy measurements but I did not get the characteristic peaks. I think that it has to be whit chloroform presence due to its fluorescence. So I let the crude caffeine 24h drying at 65 degrees but still I did not get any peak. What can I use to rinse my crude caffeine extract to remove all chloroform molecules? Or what is wrong with my extraction?

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