Use of acidic chloroform hinder phase separation of chlorform:methanol: water mixture?

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I digested (105 degree C) Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) polymer in Chloroform:methanol solution, and after cooling, 1 volume of the water was added, the pH of the mixture was very low (

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