Oil Of Cloves Lab Report
The purpose of this lab was to use techniques to do isolations of natural products such as solid cloves. Oil of cloves consists almost entirely of eugenol and its acetate. Techniques used for this experiment include steam distillation, gravity filtration, vacuum distillation, drying organic solutions, liquid/liquid extraction and infrared spectroscopy. We had 15g of crushed clove and found that it had a boiling point in the range of 105-115 degree Celsius. From 15g of crushed cloves it was shown that about 2.62% of an oil was recovered by steam distillation. This oil was identified as eugenol by comparison of its infrared spectrum with a sample. Steam distillation of cloves produced 0.393g of oil, which contained in its IR spectrum the functional
groups O-H (3515.00 cm-1), sp2 C-H (3044.00 cm-1), sp3 C-H (2843.00 cm-1), alkene C=C (1638.00 cm-1), and aromatic C=C (1613.00 cm-1, 1530.00 cm-1). Given information is shown on the IR spectrum which is attached to this report. ).393g of eugenol was recovered from 15g of cloves. This corresponds to a percent recovery of 2.62%.
groups O-H (3515.00 cm-1), sp2 C-H (3044.00 cm-1), sp3 C-H (2843.00 cm-1), alkene C=C (1638.00 cm-1), and aromatic C=C (1613.00 cm-1, 1530.00 cm-1). Given information is shown on the IR spectrum which is attached to this report. ).393g of eugenol was recovered from 15g of cloves. This corresponds to a percent recovery of 2.62%.