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Re: How to extract Caffeine from TEA ect?
by
ProfMac
on 14/03/2013, 18:35:26 UTC
No im trying to extract caffeine just for fun and to have it

better buy decaffeinated tea?

This is a standard lab for 1st semester organic chemistry.  Go to your local college and buy a copy of "Pavia."

An ordinary teabag will yield between 0 and 10 mg of caffeine, depending on your skill.  I think the Pavia book uses dichloromethane in one of the steps, and this should be changed to a greener solvent.

I suspect it would be just as easy in a home environment to put the tea into an evacuated home canning jar, and deposit the caffein on the lid using dry ice to cool the lid.  I have not, however, attempted this.