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Panacetin And Hydrochloric Acid Synthesis Lab Report

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Brianda Mendez
Lab 7 : Post Lab Each scenario below describes an operational error that can lead to low yield and/or low purity of product(s) or during the extractions of this experiment. In each case specify the component(s) whose percentage(s) would be too high or too low, and briefly explain your answer.
After adding dichloromethane to Panacetin, the mixture was not stirred long enough.
Not all of the Panacetin would be dissolved completely, instead you would end up affecting the % yield, % purity, % composition of each component, and % recovery.
During the extraction with 5% NaHCO3, the layers were only swirled gently rather than vigorously shaken. Not all of the aspirin will be converted to sodium acetylsalicylate, so it will instead remain in the organic layer and be weighed with the unknown. Therefore, the reported weight of aspirin will be too low, while the unknown will be weighed too high. …show more content…

HCl will not react with aspirin to form a water soluble salt, so the aspirin will stay in the organic layer and will not be obtained. So that leaves the reported weight of the unknown to be too high.
The pH paper was read incorrectly during neutralization of the NaHCO3 solution, and it was adjusted to pH = 7.
Very little bit of aspirin will precipitate at pH 7, so the reported weight of aspirin will be low.
2. Describe any evidence that a chemical reaction occurred when you added 6 M HCl to the solution of sodium acetylsalicylate (the conjugate base of aspirin) and explain why they took

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