Question Safrole extraction from Camphor oil

[tahresoveumer]

Hey there, this is Eumer. It's my first post on the forum so I apologize in advance if I'm missing out the rules or anything else.

I can buy camphor oil from my local stores which I heard that it contains safrole and camphor for sure. I need to seperate safrole from this oil but I don't know the procedure. Seems like I have to perform a vacuum distillation since both safrole and camphor has high boiling points. (Camphor BP: 209 C° and Safrole BP: 232 C°)

The thing is camphor has lower boiling point and I'm stuck here. I don't know what to do.

And also I've seen in an old forum that says I can seperate safrole by crystalizing in the freezer. I'd also love to learn about it.

 

[G.Patton]

Hello, it can be in this oil in case this camphor was distilled from trees with safrole like Sassafras albidum and Ocotea cymbarum.

 

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[mycelium]

As someone pointed out to me, unless there is only safrole in the solution(and it has to be a solution not just the oil) then the camphor/etc would also crystalize out.

Vacuum distillation would be how you separate, but it has to be a certain kind of camphor, there are 3 kinds, and only the...brown or yellow I can't remember, but some camphor oil is without safrole