I have trouble solubilizing the analytical standard of dibenzo[a,h]anthracene (a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon purchased from Sigma-Aldrich) to prepare a stock solution. I have already tried solubilizing in various organic solvents, including stirring and temperature.
Has anyone had problems like this compound?
This webpage containe date and referens of it solubility: https://m.chemicalbook.com/ChemicalProductProperty_EN_CB4372398.htm
Thank you for sending me this webpage. I used petroleum ether (10 mg of standard for 40 mL of petroleum ether) and not working.
Petroleum ether is a mixture of various alkanes. According to the IUPAC solubility data series, vol. 58, the solubility of dibenzo[a,h]anthracene in heptane would be 0,00034mol/l, but with your values you're trying to prepare 0,036mol/l unless I just severely miscalulated something, so you probably made a saturate solution with a much lower concentration than you hoped for.
The data is rather old, so there might be better options these days. The chemicalbook pake Iaroslav Kuziv hinted at indicated that actual ether might work better, but without quantitative data I don't want to give you hopes that you will reach your desired concentration.
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