i've read that if one adds sodium chloride (non-iodized table salt, for example) to an strongly alkaline aqueous solution of a freebase substance that is layered with a non-polar solvent, then the freebase would be more likely to leave the aqueous layer and enter into the np layer.
i've also read where some people might over-indulge with an acid while attempting an a/b extraction, and that if they miss the "7" mark, they should start over, because compensating with an alkaline substance would give them salt.
What I was wondering is this: Would one have to go all the way back to step one, or could they just add a sufficient amount of, say, NaOH to the <6 ph aqueous layer and ignore the salt (from the reaction of, say, HCl and NaOH), since it seems it (the salt byproduct) would aid in the transposition of a (now freebase, after the addition of NaOH) substance from aqueous to the np layer?
Yours, in theory,
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