How can you remove the H2O product in a condensation reaction?
Add anhydrous (dry) magnesium sulphate to your reaction mixture, this will absorb water and drive the reaction to completion by reducing the concentration of water and shifting the equilibrium to the right. EDIT: I thought of a good point and came back to edit and found the person below me had already pretty much made it. If you do a reaction in any that doesn’t have a lot of hydrogen bonding (i.e. not water, methanol or ethanol) then the water will seperate naturally. Water molecules want to group together in order to hydrogen bond and so seperate from most organic solvents (hydrophobic effects), it will then float to the top or bottom depending on the density of the other solvent. Basically the water could remove itself from the reaction if you use the right solvent. Toluene sounds like it would work, the guy below me is way more qualified than I am anyway!
