n-heptane or heptane isomer mixture?

[Trickster]

SWIM has access to both solvents but n-heptane is twice as expensive. Does it make any difference yield-wise if he uses the less expensive isomer mixture. Both are lab grade chemicals.

 

[Attention All Shipping]

Sound like you've got better access to chems than most on this board. I doubt if anyone will have enough experience to be able to comment on which is better. You could test them both out and enlighten the rest of us.

 

[Trickster]

SWIM will test both and report. After reading a wiki article on heptane (Heptane, as well as its many isomers, are widely applied in laboratories as a totally non-polar solvent.) he is quite optimistic.

 

[Strange Gray Static Mayan Pattern]

Please report, I find myself in the same situation.