Suppose you have a mixture of copper sulfate (CuSO4) and azulene (C10H8, you may wish to know the structure of azulene).  Both copper sulfate and azulene are beautiful deep blue cystalline solids.  If you transferred the mixture to a separatory funnel containing both an aqueous and and organic solvents (1M HCl and dichloromethane), into which layer would the copper sulfate partition, aqueous or organic?      Aqueous layer (1M HCl)     Organic layer (dichloromethane)     Copper sulfate would partition nearly equally into both the aqueous and organic layers

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Suppose you have a mixture of copper sulfate (CuSO4) and azulene (C10H8you may wish to know the structure of azulene).  Both copper sulfate and azulene are beautiful deep blue cystalline solids.  If you transferred the mixture to a separatory funnel containing both an aqueous and and organic solvents (1M HCl and dichloromethane), into which layer would the copper sulfate partition, aqueous or organic? 

   

Aqueous layer (1M HCl)

   

Organic layer (dichloromethane)

   

Copper sulfate would partition nearly equally into both the aqueous and organic layers

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