Question

a student set up a reaction with 0.2905g of cholesterol and 0.13g of nonanoyl chloride in excess triethylamine, and collected 0.0244g of solid product.
what is the actual yield (in grams) of cholesteryl nonanoate?
explain how to do this please :)

Answer 1

If cholersteryl nonanoate is the product, then the actual yield is 0.0244 g is it not?

Answer 2

and what is the theoretical yield?

Answer 3

Here is an example problem (worked) for theoretical yield.
http://www.jiskha.com/science/chemistry/stoichiometry.html