An easily-assembled Soxhlet extractor to demonstrate continuous extraction

The construction of a Soxhlet extractor from readily available laboratory equipment is described. The apparatus can be used to demonstrate the concept of continuous extraction and was used in the isolation of trimyristin from nutmeg.

Citation

Jones , K M , Smellie , I A & Patterson , I L J 2017 , ' An easily-assembled Soxhlet extractor to demonstrate continuous extraction ' , Journal of Chemical Education , vol. 94 , no. 6 , pp. 819-820 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00965

Publication

Journal of Chemical Education

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00965

ISSN

0021-9584

Type

Journal article

Rights

Copyright © 2017 The American Chemical Society and Division of Chemical Education, Inc. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00965

Description

The authors thank the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, University of St Andrews, and the CRITICAT Centre for Doctoral Training for financial support [Grant EP/L016419/1].