Aten Ponchung LAB 3-2

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Aten Ponchung Lab Partner: Hyeji Kim Lab Name: Extraction of Caffeine from Tea Lab Dr. Synder Lab Start Date: 1/30/24 Lab Submitted Date: 2/6/24
Objective: In this lab, the overall goal of the lab was to carefully extract and isolate caffeine from two tea bags by using procedures such as liquid extraction, drying agents, and rotary evaporation to conduct the experiment. Reagents Used: Caffeine(MW: 194.19 g/mol) Sodium Carbonate(MW: 105.989 g/mol) CaCl2 CH2CL2 Calcium Chloride(MW: 110.98 g/mol) Methylene Chloride(MW: 84.93 g/mol) Boiling Point: 39C Procedure: Isolating Caffeine For this experiment, first boil a 50ml beaker filled with 20 ml of water and two grams of sodium carbonate, stirring occasionally. After the solution has come to a boil, place one of the tea bags into the solution and let it submerge for a few minutes. After time has passed, carefully remove the tea bag from the solution and squeeze to make sure all of the tea has left the bag. Repeat this process again with another tea bag and ensure that all the tea has been thoroughly squeezed out of the bags. After this, place the solution into a centrifuge tube and cool in an ice bath for around 5 minutes before removing and adding 2 ml of dichloromethane into the cooled solution to extract the caffeine. Gently rock the tube back and forth to activate the extraction while opening the cap after every rock to vent the tube. When the solution has settled, there should be two distinct layers in the tube(brown coloring component of tea and clear organic dichloromethane). Add another 2 ml of dichloromethane and repeat the previous steps to better establish the two layers within the tube. Pipette the organic layer out of the tube and place into a 20 ml beaker. In another beaker, obtain calcium chloride pellets, enough to cover the bottom layer of the beaker, and mix with the organic layer pipetted out of the tube. Gently swirl the mix ensuring the pellets do not clump together, if so, then add more calcium chloride pellets to make sure the pellets do not stick together. Extract the liquid from the beaker with the pellets and perform a TLC test on the extracted liquid(extracted caffeine in dichloromethane) alongside a caffeine standard. Label a plate with each of the two substances and develop with a 95% ethyl acetate/5% acetic acid mixture. As the plate begins to develop, weigh a 10 ml round bottom flask and add the extracted caffeine in dichloromethane mixture before giving the flask to a professor so that the dichloromethane can be evaporated via a rotary evaporator. After this, weigh the flask and
subtract from the original mass of the flask to find the mass of the extracted caffeine which will be used to calculate the percent recovery of the caffeine. TLC test of caffeine Lastly, once the TLC plates have finished developing use a UV light to help circle the outlines of each of the spots. Confirm the solution extracted from the tea is caffeine by comparing the spots of the solution with the caffeine standard and making sure they traveled roughly around the same distance. Observations: During the experiment process, some sources of errors which might have occurred was that not all of the tea was effectively squeezed from the tea bags which might have altered the total amount of percent recovery. Additionally, during the pipetting process of the organic layer, not all of the solution was able to be removed from the tube, and once the solution was placed into the beaker with calcium chloride pellets absorbed some of the solution which might have resulted in a smaller yield. Theoretical Mass and Percent Yield Theoretical mass of caffeine 110 mg Mass of empty vial (g) 18.522 g Mass of the full vial (g) 18.5314 g Actual mass of the caffeine 0.0094 Percent Yield: Rf Values Solvent front distance (cm) 5.5 cm Distance of the caffeine standard (cm) 1.4 cm Distance of the analyte (cm) 1.3 cm Rf of the caffeine standard 0.25 cm Rf of the analyte 0.24 Product Description: The product was powdery colorless substance and had a distinct smell of brewed tea. The product was sticking to the round bottom flask and formed a relatively thin layer around the flask. Questions: Why did we carry out a TLC analysis of our product? - It is necessary to carry out TLC analysis of the product because it ensures the identity of the solution extracted from the tea to be caffeine by comparing the mixture to a caffeine
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standard. After TLC analysis, if both substances traveled around the same distance, they are both identified to be caffeine. Percent Yield Calculations: Rf Sample Calculations: TLC Plate Sketch: Conclusion: Based on the results of the experiment, the percent yield of the caffeine was only 8.54% which seems relatively low but was overall expected due to the many margins of errors that occurred during the procedural process of the extraction. These included not squeezing all of the tea from the tea bags during the brewing process and also some of the tea sticking to the gloves which made it impossible to result in a significant percent yield of the caffeine. By conducting the TLC test, it confirmed that the product was pure caffeine by comparing the visualized TLC of the product and that of a caffeine standard. Additionally, The Rf Value of the obtained caffeine was slightly lower than that of the standard, which indicates that the solution contained impurities. This most likely occurred during the pipetting of the organic layer as it is possible that a small amount of the inorganic layer was collected.
References: “Caffeine.” National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubChem Compound Database , U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/caffeine. Accessed 5 Feb. 2024. “Sodium Carbonate.” National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubChem Compound Database , U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Sodium-Carbonate. Accessed 5 Feb. 2024. “Calcium Chloride.” National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubChem Compound Database , U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Calcium-Chloride. Accessed 5 Feb. 2024. PubChem. “Methylene Chloride.” PubChem , pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Methylene-Chloride.