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Dichloromethane (DCM), or methylene chloride is an organic solvent with a very low vapor pressure. Therefore, to dry it one can simply leave it out at room temperature and it will quickly evaporate.

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13y ago

Stirr dichloromethane with calcium chloride, filter calcium chloride. Add calcium hydride to dichloromethane, reflux for 10 hrs and distill dichloromethane.

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Methanol can be dried from 3A molecular sieves overnight followed by distillation. Check out the related link for instructions on how to prepare dry methanol.

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Wash with dilute H2SO4, then NaHCO3, and dry with solid K2CO3. Then distil from CaH like DCM.

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methanol can't be dried completely, it always contains some water.

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