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aspirin can be produced from the reaction of salicylic acid and acetic anhydride. they react in a 1:1 molar ratio.
A) use the aldrich catalog to find the molar masses of salicylic acid and acetic anhydride.
B) if you react 0.111 g of salicylic acid with 0.200 g acetic anhydride, how much moles of each reactant do you have? which reactant is the limiting reagent? which is excess? if the molar mass of aspirin is 180.15 g/mol, what is the theoretical yield, in grams, of this reaction?
C) what volume of acetic anhydride do you need to add to the reation to provide the 0.200 g of acetic anhydride?
D) if you obtain 0.108 g of aspirin, what is your percent yield for this reaction?