In: Chemistry
you think you have isolated (r)-(-)-carvone from a mixture of spearmint and Caraway seed oil. how do you determine successfulness without smell or taste? how do you determine purity? what method could you have used and fundamental principal behind it?
how do you determine successfulness without smell or taste?
ANS. by NMR and mass spectroscopy we can check the sucessfull separation or not.
how do you determine purity?
ANS. by using polarimeter we can predict the purity of (r)-(-)-carvone.
what method could you have used and fundamental principal behind it?
ANS. the basic of this method is optical rotation of a a enantiomer. the recemic mixture has zero optical rotetion. the pure enantiomer has "+ ve" or "- ve" rotetion value and the the value is fixed for a particular compound. by comparing the observed rotetion value and the actual rotetion value we can calculate the optical purity that is enantiomeric excess of the corresponding compound.