This video demonstrates how to perform a micro scale distillation using a Hickman stillhead. The distillation apparatus includes a ring stand with one small clamp, a hot plate, an aluminum heating block, a clean and dry 5 ml conical vial with screw cap, boiling chips, a Hickman stillhead with a one hole septum and screw cap, and a digital thermometer. Place the aluminum block on top of the hot plate. Place the 5 ml conical vial in one of the openings of the aluminum block. At this point add 2 or 3 boiling chips to the conical vial. Then add the reagents to the vial. In this particular case the reagents are 2 methyl cyclohexanol and phosphoric acid. Concentrated acids are corrosive, always wash hands after use. Attach the Hickman stillhead to the conical vial and lightly tighten the screw cap that secures the junction. Place the one hole septum with teflon coating side down against the glass and tighten the screw cap on top of the stillhead. Attach a digital thermometer to the top of the stillhead. Suspend that the thermometer with a clamp in order to measure the temperature of the vapor rather than the liquid. Heat the reaction mixture to boiling. Put the temperature of the stillhead as you are collecting distillate. Keep the temperature of the distillation below 95 degrees Celsius. This mixture will need to be heated well in order for the distillate to reach the stillhead. You might need to set the hot plate to max to generate sufficient vapor. The material being collected will accumulate on the lip of the stillhead. Do not allow the distillation pot to run dry. This distillation is not quantitative. That means you won't collect all of the product that is made, just a sample of it. Turn off the heat and lift the whole apparatus from the aluminum block to let it cool off. Using a long stemmed patched-door pipe head, transfer the liquid accumulated on the lip of the stillhead to a clean test tube. Let a small amount of inhydrous sodium sulfate and let it dry for two minutes. Carefully transfer the dried liquid into a clean test tube.