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You add 2.202 g salicylic acid to a 125 mL Erlenmeyer flask. You add 4.0 mL acetic anhydride and 5 drops of sulfuric acid. After completing the synthesis, filtering, you place the crystals to dry on an evaporating dish that weights 22.067 g. After drying, the crystals and evaporating dish weigh 24.452 g. Calculate the percent yield of aspirin.
Salicylic acid + Acetic anhydride -----> Aspirin + Acetic acid
1 mole 1 mole 1mole 1mole
Actual yield
Empty weight of the dish = 22.067g
After drying empty dish + Crystals = 24.452g
Weight of Crystals = 2.385g
Actual yield = 2.385g
Theoretical yield
weight of salicylic acid = 2.202g
Molar mass of salicylic acid = 138.12g
No of mole of salicylic acid = 2.202/138.12= 0.01594
Volume of acetic anhydride = 4 ml
Density of acetic anhydride = 1.082g/ml
Mass of acetic anhydride = 1.082 ×4 = 4.328g
Molar mass of acetic anhydride =102.09g
No of mole of acetic anhydride = 4.328/102.09= 0.04239
According to stoichiometry salicylic acid is limiting
1 mole of salicylic acid gives 1mole of aspirin
0.01594 mole of salicylic acid give 0.01594 mole of aspirin
Molar mass of aspirin = 180.16g
Mass of aspirin = 0.01594 × 180.16g = 2.872g
Percentage yield
Percentage yield =( Actual yield/Theoretical yield)×100
= (2.385g/2.872g) ×100
= 83.04%