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Title: salting out h-br from ethyl acetate
Post by: Vaaguh on July 15, 2003, 10:36:00 PM

Is it possible to salt out H-Br from a H-Br/Ethyl Acetate or H-Br/Acetic Acid solution by adding Sodium BiCarbonate ?

Title: Not if it was an acetic acid solution.
Post by: El_Zorro on July 15, 2003, 10:47:00 PM

Not if it was an acetic acid solution.  And I don't think if you did it with an ethyl acetate solution that the water formed in the bicarbonate/acid reaction would be enough to dissolve the NaBr.  But if you did that, then you'd have NaBr instead of HBr.

Title: Yes the NaBr in solution is exactly what I...
Post by: Vaaguh on July 15, 2003, 11:30:00 PM

Yes the NaBr in solution is exactly what I would want