i´m doing the extractions today with toulene and are going way better than DCM.
Supossed no problem with that on the next steps?

thank´s alot for the info.very usefull.
Proved without doubt that for me all goes better ussing toluene and not DCM as extraction solvent.Really easy separations.But......
I am distilling today the ketone, and for my amazement, this one going out without color .,only with a very little green, almost invaluable reflection .Ever have obtained ketone with a color between yellow and green fluorescente.I don´t believe that it could be safrol or isosafrol, because that nothing for the quantity that i´m gathering.It´s posible to be safrol-isosafrol?temperatures not mach with that. I have been attentive to the different temperatures of exit, and I could see  the safrol-isosafrol  coming at lower temperature and he was presenting certain turbidity as alway,not like the ¿ketone? i´m recovering at usual temperature(200-210).(yes,very high).
 It is possible to obtain a colorless ketona, or wants to say that I have been wrong??? .i´m have seen an multimedia article on Rhodium with people achieving blue ketone....
 If the information is useful for something, I have done the wacker with benzoquinone and methanol ala methyl's man and have extracted the ketona with toluene.Is the first time that I use the toluene as solvent to extract... can it be related to this??.
     It is the only new variable that I have introduced with regard to previous occasions.
  I´m doing to the distillation with columm(fractional),really a painfull, but good to obtain more pure `product.
   What do you think??

Ultimately I believe that possibly quite this correct, since ultimately, after the whole distillation, the obtained product if it has this pale green color.
It is as if only it was estimated well when the flask has a considerable quantity of product. At the end of the distillation, I have had to remove the column vigreaux(of course isolated with rockwool), because   the ketone that still was staying seemd to be  unable to come out. Probably i will redestill the ketone again to assure a maximum purity,because on my post aminations the yields aren´t the supossed to get,and i believe there is connection with not pure ketone,along other variables.
 With regard to the instructions of Methyl's man it brings over of adding oil to prevent the ketone from burning, i proved this once or twice (with sunflower oil and silicone oil)and results in a distilling flask with 2 phases, the superior of oil and the low one of tar, which produced that the stirbar could not move and remaining big part of the product caught in that tar.
   For my experience and results, always it has gone quite much better without adding any oil.,and begins distillation fractional until half of the ketone it´s on the receiving flask,and then continue with normal distillation without columm.Of course  for people like me with not good vacumm source and not a big stirhotplate.Allways a little tar it´s creating on the distilling flask,but way less without any oil.
  PD:a good method to avoid this tar it´s when distillation ends,empty the hot liquid tar on a milk jug or something,not by the toilet,because,when gets cold with water,it get instant hard and sticky,and it´s very hard to clean from any surface.Then,rinse the hot flask with toulene and all that tar it´s cleaned in 30 seconds.Don´t let the flask get cold....i have spent afternooms cleaning a flask from this reaction,and sometimes needs to buy another new
    

THere was a post at the Hive, which discussed that the color of the Ketone was correlated to the extent of NaOH washes done. I can find it and post it later. I wouldn't sweat the color like people used to.

I feel a large amount of color change could come from the lighting involved. Organics many times react to various light sources to generate a spectrum of color. Take tea for instance and allow sunlight to fall into a glass of tea. The top layer will appear green. Having this happen with a more transparent compound could yeild a range of colors even if your compound is clear in "normal" light.

It seems that there is no problem  with this ketone lacking in an intense color. Tried  days ago on methylamine/AL /MeOH amination and  result in a perfect hydrocloride as for effects and yields.
 Ultimately, I have proved the method of crystallization proposed by a member of the forum, about  extracte the amine  on the toluene with 10% HCL ,and let  to evaporate for days the water to obtain colored crystals, which went on to the correct color after the washes with acetone. A slow, but very very secure and easy method .Served me too  to discover that my problem in the low yields was the crystallization with  gas. But now I her miss!