I want to use these two as a solvents in catalysis. SO before proceeding with thier application, I need to purify them. Is distillation a suitable method for their purification?
Hi Shilpa,
if you cant afford to buy analytical grades of these solvents you must go through vaccum distillation techniques which will require some additional efforts of yours. For your peace of mind you can just check their purity via proton NMR after such distillations! Hope it helps :)
Hi Shilpa. As Somnath said, you can go ahead and distil your alcohols. You can distil them from drying agents if your biggest worry is the presence of water. I would suggest that you find the book whose reference I have below for you. It literally gives various purification methods for different compounds. The nice part is that it even has references of the publications in which the methods were reported.
Perrin D.D.; Armarego W.L.F. Purification of laboratory chemicals. 3rd Ed. 1989.
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