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How should it be done?

The mixture is made up of toluene, isobutanol and bytul acetate.

Thanks in advance!

Check the soloubility in water. Destillation , steam Destillation.

Would boiling it first at 108°C to extract the isobutanol and after that at 111°C to extract the toluene work?

The boiling points are so close that I fear that a sizeable amount of toluene would be lost in the process

I am not sure it has an azeotrope, so normal Destillation probably will not work.Toluene is non protic, the others are some protic because of the oxygenes. So water steam phase destillation probably helps.