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Extract Vanillan from Vanilla
I will upload a much better recipe later, but for now, a quick synopsis should suffice. Basically, we are going to use the dichloromethane we extracted from paint stripper in a previous experiment to extract the vanilla from regular cheap vanilla. The cheapest stuff you can find usually works the best.
You basically just pour the vanilla into a separatory funnel along with a certain amount of DCM, shake, ventilating often, and then drain off the DCM. Do this a couple of times, collecting all of the DCM. Boil it down to concentrate it, then get the vanillan from it.
You basically just pour the vanilla into a separatory funnel along with a certain amount of DCM, shake, ventilating often, and then drain off the DCM. Do this a couple of times, collecting all of the DCM. Boil it down to concentrate it, then get the vanillan from it.