Swim is wondering if there is a way to test for isosafrole that does not involve heating it to 232C. Currently swim only has peanut oil which smoking point, I am sure is less that that of safrole.
Swim took 1000ml of essential oil and added 100g of KOH to the solution, it was set up as if I were doing a distillation, temperature reached around 150C and stayed there for ~18 hours, the solution was a brown-dark brown color throughout the reaction, (iso)safrole was distilled via atmospheric pressure. Smell was different--similar to safrole but less 'potent'.
A crude density test gave 1.10. Swim does not have access to tlc plates or a GC