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Calcium hydroxide and sunflower oil
I am going to do liquid-liquid extraction of butyric acid from water using vegetable oil. Then I am going to extract butyric acid into water layer
again using Ca(OH)2. But I have one question:
Can Ca(OH)2 saponify vegetable oil easily? Because then I would contaminate the butyric acid with all those other fatty acids.
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Nicodem
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You might want to check the logP of butyric acid first. Vegetable oil is not much more polar than alkanes.
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