Is there any way to make immiscible a kind of alcohol in contact with water? Alcohols are miscible in water. I'm looking for a way which makes alcohol able to form an individual phase in contact with water. would anybody help me?
Methanol, ethanol, propanol are miscible with water. The alcohols with longer C-chains are not completely miscible. The solubility decreases the longer the C-chain.
If you add sufficient electrolyte, ethanol-water or propanol-water mixtures will separate into two phases.
I am not sure ― not clear from the enunciate ― if you could be interested in considering liquid-liquid extraction of the considered alchool from the aqueous phase to a nearly immiscible organic phase; for what it would be convenient to consider the solubility equilibrium diagram for the corresponding ternary system.
The following discussion addresses the methanol―water―chloroform system: https://www.researchgate.net/post/what_is_a_good_source_for_LLE_ternary_diagram_data_In_particular_I_am_looking_for_water-methanol-chloroform_data
Next discussion focuses the ethanol―water―benzene system: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_I_can_separate_the_azeotropic_mixture_of_water-ethanol-benzene
For suggested literature concerning to ternary (liquid) phase diagrams: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_would_be_a_good_book_for_thermodynamics_of_ternary_phase_diagrams
On the applicability of the McCabe-Thiele graphical method to solve mass-transfer problems on liquid-liquid extraction: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_construct_McCabe_Thiele_diagram_for_LLE_and_is_there_any_software_for_LLE_simulation
Another case that you may want to consider, is when the alcohol is partially immiscible with water. In such a case, it may be found preferable to decrease the mutual solubility between both phases by cooling, and/or by adding a salt, preferably insoluble in the alcoholic phase but soluble in the aqueous phase. That also reduces the mutual solubility between both phases, due to what is known as the salting-out effect (*). This is the case for the phenol―water system, upon the addition of either potassium chloride or sodium chloride (**), which just dissolve noticeably in the aqueous phase. Note that phenol (as other phenols) are closely related to alcohols. Liquid-liquid phase separation becomes then possible, even without assistance of another solvent as extractant for the alcohol, as I have discussed at above post.
(*) Some previous discussions addressing the salting-out effect: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_when_i_add_NaCl_1_in_aqueous_solution_of_PEG_10_it_doesnt_disolve_cellulose_acetate_anymore https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_there_anyone_who_can_provide_the_salting_out_protocol_for_butyrate_extraction https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_anyone_have_the_Setschenow_salting_out_constant_of_N2O
(**) For further discussion and mutual solubility data, cf.: A.N. Campbell, N.O. Smith, Alexander Findlay (original author), "The Phase Rule and its Applications", 9th ed., Dover Publications Inc., 1951, pp. 102-103.
Thank you Mr. Araújo Queiroz and Mr. John Miller for your valuable guidance. In fact, I want to extract a mixture of metals, dissolved in the aqueous phase, using solvent extraction system.