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Resorcinol from tree sap
I have some tree sap from firs and could I make resorcinol from that? Or maybe extract some other useful compounds? I have about 1 kg of that tree
resin.
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Its not that bad actually, I easily manage to clean it using MEK and isopropyl alcohol nail polish remover.  Just is there a way to do it?
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Quote: Originally posted by Random  | | I have some tree sap from firs and could I make resorcinol from that? Or maybe extract some other useful compounds? I have about 1 kg of that tree
resin. |
Make it from tree sap? industrial production is by fusing
benzene-m-disulfonic acid with sodium hydroxide.
{CCD}
Tree sap may depending on the species of tree heated with sodium hydroxide may work.
Or maybe extract some other useful compounds? .
Sure destructive distillation of the whole plant works. Useful .....?
See —
JL Schantz and T Martin
Hercules Powder Company, Wilmington, Delaware,
Waste Utilization : Land Reclamation through Chemical Industry.
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 31 [5] 585-595. May, 1939.
(5 pages of pictures.)
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Maybe extraction with hot aq. NaOH does work. Precipation with aq. HCl may lead to a crude product.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Random | | I have some tree sap from firs and could I make resorcinol from that? Or maybe extract some other useful compounds? I have about 1 kg of that tree
resin. |
Ettore Molinari
Treatise on General and Industrial Chemistry
Translated from the second enlarged and revised Italian
edition by TH Pope
P Blackiston's Son & Co.
1913
Sez — is formed on fusing various resins, such as galbanum and asafœtida with potash....
Wiki-P sez the same.
Question being — why were these two gum's/resins preferred?
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It's actually pine tree resin. Do I need to fuse it with NaOH or I can just use solution of naoh in hot water?
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| Quote: Originally posted by Random | | It's actually pine tree resin. Do I need to fuse it with NaOH or I can just use solution of naoh in hot water? |
Resorcinol is obtained in considerable quantity by distilling extract of Brazilwood, a dye made by boiling the wood of Cceialjrinia braziliensis
with water, and evaporating the solution. It was originally prepared by fusing with potash the gam-resin known as yalbanum, obtained in Turkey and the
East Indies as an exudation from the Galbanum officinale, an umbelliferous plant. Other gum-resins obtained from plants of the same order also yield
resorcinol when fused with potash; such as ammoniacum, atsafcetida, tagapenum, all more or less firt idsmelling medicinal bodies imported from the
East. When these gam-resins are distilled alone, they yield umbelliferone, C.H.O,, or CaH,(CHO).,CO, which is converted into resorcinol when fused
with potash.
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