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Caffeine Lab Report

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When caffeine is extracted from tealeaves the function is deeply affected by the structure. Caffeine is made up of three function groups. These functional groups include; an amine, an amine, and an alkene. Caffeine is also basic. It gets its basic nature from the lone pair found on the nitrogen. When looking at the structure there is London dispersion forces, dipole-dipole forces, as well as hydrogen bonding when in water. This information shows that it is a polar molecule. The nitrogen found in the molecule however, controls solubility. So when extracting the caffeine, the temperature of the water was increased to also increase the solubility of caffeine in the water. During the solid-liquid extraction the solid insoluble materials were separated

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