Folks, I need help. I want to get a lil' bit of salicylic acid.
There are two options: Hydrolysis of aspirin, or extraction from this medication to treat warts I got.
The medication is a liquid mixture of lactic acid, salicylic acid and flexible collodion.
When I pour this medication in a glass of water, it forms this white thing. I think that's the collodion. How do I get the SA out?
there are plenty of face washing products that have salicylic acid in them.
>>8624755
but that's too little
>>8624736
You can buy pure SA
>>8624784
this
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>>8624736
Considering that lactic and salicylic have very similar properties I don't think you can do it with household equipment.
In fact the only way I can think on the spot is basic hydrolysis of aspirin then separation with ion exchange LC with acidic solution as mobile phase.
Possibly there may be more extravagant solutions like using lipase in synthesis with a fatty acid as nucleophile, assuming we can use aspirin as a substrate.
>>8624736
Extract it from trees in genus Salix, willows.
>>8624736
you can literally buy it online
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DWI05F2
Flexible colloidon sounds cool, maybe you can aggregate it by messing with the pH or temperature, careful though as both sa and lactic acid will change solubility. Maybe put it in a vat of water, get it to aggregate, and scoop it from the top like rendering fat
Once you get it down to crystals of lactic acid and salicylic acid I'd carefully melt the lactic acid away