Crystallization from Aqueous Phase

[Roguelab]

Counter current seperation

I wanted to contribute a topic. This month I ran a counter current seperation process that for a first time seemed to work well. It is useful if you want chromatography type results but without the gel and columns and such. You must use a set of solvents that are immiscible in each other and hexane is immiscible in methanol and water. Methanol and water are miscible in each other in all proportions. So a methanol/water layer will not mix with hexane and will form a layer under it. The idea is t…