Hope it helps man 🙂
I looked deeper into today and come up with this, keep me posted about your results or any advice you can share with me 😉
Chlorobutanol, or trichloro-2-methyl-2-propanol, is typically used at a concentration of 0.5% where it lends long term stability to multi-ingredient formulations,
Boiling Point: 167 °C
However, it retains antimicrobial activity at 0.05% in water. In pure state it’s a white, menthol like odor, and a volatile solid which can easily transform from its solid phase to vapor phase without going through a liquid phase. (i’m guessing heat plays a important role in purification.. maybe steam distillation?)
from what I have just read I think your problem is not letting all the acetone evaporate, maybe use some kind of drying agent when ready to dry.
Chloroform Boiling point: 61.2 °C , maybe try in a well ventilatted area to boil the excess chloroform off.
Try using ether or in a volatile oil rather then NaOH, (why do you use NaOH?) acetone is a good solvent and when used with drying agents in drying you would expect a nice clean product.
freely slouble in chloroform, very soluble in ether, in glycerol at 85%, in 0.6 of alchol, and only slightly in water.
What brand name or formulation do you use? and what you expected uses for the purified product? (if its for its antimicrobial activity then my understanding from what I read today is that to keep its antimicrobial activity it must contain water??? please correct me if I am wrong.
Looks like a very interesting preservative all the less…
@Tryptameanie! who is this person who would be disgusted with a aussie like myself? very intrigued
