Hello, everyone. I am a high school student from Japan, whose weakest subject is chemistry.
Does anyone here know several different ways to extract caffeine from tea leaves? I have found some experiments that use dichloromethane, carbon dioxide, and Soxhlet Extraction. If you know any other things, I would be happy if you tell me that.
In the introduction of my report, I have to state which methods succeed and fail. I am going to say that the method with carbon dioxide will fail because the high concentration of carbon dioxide can be harmful to humans in the science lab.
Also, the last thing: can ethanol be used to extract caffeine from tea leaves?