video tutorial Acetylsalicylic acid extraction from aspirin tablets

Name: video tutorial - Acetylsalicylic acid extraction from aspirin tablets
Uploaded: 2025-12-11T09:03:44.108Z
Duration: 4 min 32 s
Description: We were recently given some aspirin as a gift and we have been dreaming up some ideas of what to do with it....Here we go. We're using 48 tablets each containing 500 mg of acetylsalicylic acid.

Demonstrates a quantitative extraction of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) from 48 tablets (each 500 mg) using dry acetone as solvent.
Dissolve in 50 mL acetone and heat in a microwave (400 W) to boiling; break up remaining solids and re-boil.
Filter the hot solution to remove insoluble tablet binders, using vacuum filtration; return insolubles to the beaker.
Add an additional 25 mL acetone to dissolve remaining acetylsalicylic acid and heat again; filter hot.
Repeat with the final 25 mL to dissolve any remaining product, then filter again.
Crystallization: allow the filtrate to cool and form crystals; filtering at this stage would remove product still dissolved in acetone.
Dry the crystals by evaporating the acetone in a warm, ventilated dish; acetone is highly flammable.
Within a few hours, acetone evaporates leaving roughly 24 g of pure acetylsalicylic acid crystals (near 100% recovery).
A suggested challenge is to maximize yield with minimal solvent.