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Oct 10, 2017

Water would appear be a good solvent.

Explanation:

2-hexanol is reported to be soluble at 5.9g/L in water (Record in the GESTIS Substance Database of the Institute for Occupational Safety and Health), while 1-hexene is only 'soluble' at 50mg/l - a 100-fold difference! https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/1-hexene#section=Solubility.

No solvent is likely to give you 100% separation in one pass. For higher purities or yields you may need to do successive extractions on the primary solution.

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