Question
How do I find the Actual Yield and the Percent Yield if I have the mass of salicylic acid as 1.46 g, volume of acetic anhydride as 3 mL, mass of acetic anhydride as 3.24 g, and theoretical yield of aspirin as 1.90 g/mol?
Answers
write the balanced equation
Find how many moles you use on input
The equation will tell you how many moles to expect on output
divide what you got by what you expected for % yield
Find how many moles you use on input
The equation will tell you how many moles to expect on output
divide what you got by what you expected for % yield
Let me point out a number of problems with this post.
1. A theoretical yield of 1.90 g/mol makes no sense. You must have meant 1.90 grams.
2. The only way you get an actual yield is if the problem tells you or if you do the actual experiment. Frankly, I suspect the 1.90 above is the actual yield and you are to calculate theoretical yield from oobleck's post. From that you can calculate % yield.
1. A theoretical yield of 1.90 g/mol makes no sense. You must have meant 1.90 grams.
2. The only way you get an actual yield is if the problem tells you or if you do the actual experiment. Frankly, I suspect the 1.90 above is the actual yield and you are to calculate theoretical yield from oobleck's post. From that you can calculate % yield.
Related Questions
How to calculate the theoretical yield of aspirin to be obtained when 2.0 g of salicylic acid and 5....
I wanted to calculate the theoretical and actual yield of aspirin.
mass of salicylic acid = 2.00...
Aspirin can be prepared in the chemistry laboratory by the reaction of salicylic acid with acetic...