Quote: Originally posted by weiming1998 ![](images/xpblue/lastpost.gif) | After a day, I got this strange oil-like substance that is transparent. So I flitered out the substance. But the strange thing was that it was
miscible with water! |
This is very possibly glycerol...
Usually if you want a reasonable yield of free fatty acids you will need to do the saponification in a suitable solvent.
Now, I am not a fatty acid separation expert but why would you use KMnO4 or CuSO4 to try to separate anything, was this an attempt to "salt" the fatty
acids out? |