In: Chemistry
Assume you have a sample of DEET that is contaminated by
m-toluic acid. Propose a method to remove the impurity,
explaining how that would work.
DEET and m-toluric acid mixture was dissolved in any organic solvents then add the saturated NaHCO3 solution to the mixture shake well for some time. The mixture was poured in to separating funnel and separate the aqueous layer in this aqueous layer contained m-toluricacid sodium salt so it will not come to organic layer. In the organic layer contained pure DEET then solvents was evaporated finally will get DEET only