Trouble-Brewing
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I am doing a special project in my organic chemistry class and am wondering if there is a fairly simple way to characterize the compounds I extract. I plan on boiling hop pellets in a ratio of 3g of hops in 25ml of ethanol for an hour, then cooling and filtering and drying under vacuum. I did the extraction at home using some gin I distilled down to somewhere near 80% ethanol and it definitely extracts the bittering compounds I just need a way to separate the acids from the essential oils and prove that they have been extracted. All of the papers I have found use high performance liquid chromatography or centrifugal partition chromatography neither of which I have access to. I do have access to NMR, mass spec, gas and column chromatography. Any help would be great, thanks