Hi guys. I am a newbie or a beginner in the field of chemistry, and i am looking for easy and not too dangerous experiments.
I have many to choose from, but i lean towards doing steam distillations of cinnamon bark and orange peel. Plus the isolation of cinnamaldehyde and
limonene.
I choose these two becouse its pretty straight forward and not too complicated. And also becouse oranges i can get any day of the week, and cinnamon i
have a whole bunch of at home.
Can anybody add more extractions of plants thats readily available, and that can be a useful compound for future experiments?
What i wTexium - 27-9-2014 at 07:00
There's already quite a bit of information about steam distillation on this forum. If you search for steam distillation with subject only selected,
you'll find a lot of threads about it, like this one, which contains lots of useful looking resource that people have posted.
Or this one, which looks like the same sort of thing as your thread.
[Edited on 9-27-2014 by zts16]Brain&Force - 27-9-2014 at 08:36
Encelia farinosa is a project arkoma is working on - he plans to extract 3-acetyl-6-methoxybenzaldehyde from the plant (it's a component of
incense and a natural plant growth inhibitor).
Of course, what plants are available for extraction is highly dependent on your locality. Why not just find some plants and distill their contents?
You might be interested to find out what they contain. Combined with chromatography you might be able to do a quality qualitative analysis.
[Edited on 27.9.2014 by Brain&Force]Ramium - 13-4-2015 at 22:22
I extracted limonene from orange peal today via steam distillation.
