Isopropanol or Reagent Grade Acetone
See also : Water then Acetone Extraction
See also : Denatured Alcohol Extraction
Either Isopropanol or reagent grade acetone:
See also : Denatured Alcohol Extraction
Either Isopropanol or reagent grade acetone:
- Put leaves in glass beaker with reagent grade acetone for 3 days.
* Note the solvent turns green and leaf becomes paler. - Strain leaves out of acetone, pouring acetone into glass double boiler / beaker in hot waterbath.
- Reserve spent leaves.
- Boil acetone to evaporate as much solvent as possible.
- Add small amount of spent salvia leaves to oily residue and stir leaves to remove residue from glass.
- Remove leaf
- Add more acetone to beaker/double boiler to redisolve oily residue clinging to glass.
- Repeat evaporation procedure.
- Add spent leaves to another volume of acetone and repeat steps 1-8 above.