Calculations:

Calculating the % yield of acetanilide

% yield = (actual yield/theoretical yield) * 100%

= (4g/5.78g) * 100%
= 69.2%

Questions & Answers:

o Why is it more advantageous to wash the crystals with 2 or 3 small portion of
solvent than one large portion?

o Washing the crystals with separate portions of the solvent resulted in more of the
particles being passed into the filter paper. One large portion of the solvent would
only result in some of the crystal particles be passed from the flask since excess
amount will still remain at the bottom.

o What means other than crystallization from a solvent may be used to purify an
organic solid or to effect preliminary separation of a solid mixture?
o Liquidliquid extraction (Solvent extraction) is another method that can be used
to remove an impurity or recovers a desired product by dissolving the crude
material in 4 solvent in which other components of the feed material are soluble.

o Account for any difference in melting point that may have occurred between the
recrystallized acetanilde and the reported literature value.
The actual melting point of the crystal is 123oC and the experiment value
of melting point range between 89oC 95oC. The experiment value is out
of range because a lot of impurities were in the crystals and it could also
be because of experimental errors or environmental errors.