Synthesis of Aspirin
Essay by vikilyc • November 9, 2016 • Lab Report • 302 Words (2 Pages) • 1,012 Views
Liu, Yuchen
Professor Ho
10 September 2016
Melting Point Determination
Purity and Identify of Crystalline Organic Compounds
I. Purpose: This experiment is to determine the melting point of organic compounds.
II. Procedure:
-Take proper amount of a organic compound sample using a capillary tube.
-Put the capillary tube into a oil bath heater which has a thermometer attached to, switch the heater on and turn to level 50% of power.
-Observe the sample, record the temperature when the compound starts to melt.
-Repeat all the procedures above until each sample’s melting point is determined.
III. Observation:
-All organic compound samples were colorless crystal at room temperature.
-Different samples started to melt at different temperatures.
-All samples melted to colorless liquid.
-Data is shown below:
Table 1. Melting point of pure organic compounds and mixtures
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Figure 1. Mixture melting point versus percent amount of Benzoic Acid
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Table 2. Unknown compound melting point determination
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IV. Calculation
N/A
V. Conclusion
Part A: As shown in Table 1 and Figure 1, when the percent amount of Benzoic Acid increases, the melting point of the mixture goes down the goes up and reaches the lowest at 50% of Benzoic Acid and 50% of trans-Cinnamic Acid. So the purer the mixture is, the higher melting point it has.
Part B: Melting points of unknown organic compound are determined and shown in Table 2. Then it is determined that unknown #1 is Benzoic Acid; unknown #2 is p-Nitrotoluene; unknown #3 is Benzophenone; unknown #4 is Benzamide; unknown #5 is Maleic Acid; unknown #7 is Adipic Acid and unknown #8 is trans-Cinnamic Acid.
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