i discovered that a very common multipurpose solvent sold here is mainly made of hexane, n-hexane and methyl acetate. Now i want to separate them, as
they are both very useful (i want to use methyl acetate as a source of methanol). I thought about salting out MeOAc with calcium chloride, the same
method for separating ethyl acetate and alcohol. The problem is that hexane should be immiscible with water, so i don't know if it would work. Any
ideas?DraconicAcid - 31-5-2021 at 09:26
You'd probably be better off extracting the methyl acetate with water- it's not very soluble, but it's much more soluble than hexanes.
Alternatively, you could hydrolyze the ester with sodium hydroxide while it's mixed with the hexanes, giving you methanol and hexanes, which would be
much easier to separate. Texium - 31-5-2021 at 10:16
Hydrolyzing the methyl acetate would make it would make it much simpler to separate. Methanol and hexanes are actually immiscible on their own, and
having water present will just make that difference even greater!BauArf56 - 26-6-2021 at 03:06
how can i tell if the windshield wiper fluid has methanol in it? It has a flammable label, but i have no idea for telling if it's just ethanol or
methanol.Amos - 26-6-2021 at 05:03
how can i tell if the windshield wiper fluid has methanol in it? It has a flammable label, but i have no idea for telling if it's just ethanol or
methanol.
You should search the name of the product online, and potentially any product identification numbers, and see if there's a corresponding MSDS or other
named safety sheet.
