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Question: Write the reaction(s), with the reactant and products' structures to describe the following experiment.
In this experiment you will steam distill clove oil from freshly ground cloves. Following the distillation, clove oil and water will be present in the receiving flask. Because clove oil will be a minor fraction of the distillate, the clove oil must be extracted from the water into an organic solvent such as dichloromethane. Removing the dicholormethane layer leaves clove oil as the product.
The steps to be taken are:
1. Place ground cloves of garlic and water in a distilling flask
2. Distill the mixture (steam distillation)
3. Extract the clove oil into the dicholormethane and dry this with anhydrous NA2SO4
4. Remove the dichloromethane from the clove oil by distillation and finally weight the clove oil