Homework Help: chemistry

Posted by madel on Monday, January 15, 2007 at 5:12am.

in the isolation of eugenol, why is it necessary to extract the organic layer with enough base?

I am not an organic chemist so check me on this. Isn't eugenol a phenol? Won't that make it somewhat acid? Won't the NaOH extraction make the phenol a sodium salt soluble in the water layer? To extract all of the eugenol you would want to use enough base to get all of the product.

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