CHEM 120.

1 – ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (LABORATORY)

LABORATORY REPORT

Exercise No. 3
Extraction of Caffeine from Tea

I. OBJECTIVES

In the end of the Lesson, we will be able to learn to or how to:

1. To extract caffeine from tea.
2. To determine the percent recovery of caffeine from tea.

Results Inference
For this experiment, we used the liquid to liquid
extraction method. Given that the weight of the tea and
Weight of tea + beaker = 78.5 grams was the weight of the the beaker was 78.5 grams and the weight of the beaker was
76.5 grams, we simply have to subtract it in order to come
tea and the beaker
up with the weight of the tea. Thus we found out that the
tea weighed 2 grams.
The tea was boiled and cooled after then. The next
Weight of beaker = 76. 5 grams was the weight of the
process is the liquid to liquid extraction which involves the
beaker distribution of compound called solute, between two
immiscible or non-soluble liquid solvents, it includes
the tea and added with dichloromethane in the
Weight of tea = the tea weighed 2.0 grams experiment.
After the process, we now have the crude caffeine
which proceeds to the process of evaporating the
dichloromethane on a steam bath using the rotovap. In the
process, as the solvent evaporates, we can notice a lot of
Weight of crude caffeine = the crude caffeine was 0.106
frothing and bubbling in the evaporating flask. When it
grams starts bubbling out of the flask, the solvent condenses on
the cooling coils and drips down into the collection flask
and we can observe that it turned to powder again.
% Recovery = 0.106 grams x 100 %
2 grams
For the percent recovery, we came up with the
= 0.053 x 100 answer using the formula of percent recovery which is the
= 5.3 % weight of the crude caffeine divided by the weight of the
tea, and then we multiplied it by 100.
Therefore, the percent recovery of caffeine from tea is
5.3 %.