Determine the actual yield in grams of CCL4 if 175.0g of Cl2 reacts with meathane. The percentage yield of the reaction is 75.4%

Answer 1

1. Write the equation and balance it.
2. Convert 175.0 g Cl2 to mols. # mols = grams/molar mass.
3. Using the coefficients in the balanced equation, convert mols Cl2 to mols CCl4. This is the theoretical yield.
4. Multiply theoretical yield in step 3 by 0.754 to convert to actual yield.
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Answer 2

thanks DrBob222. i really needed that. So are you saying to get the actual yield you take what is given covert use molar ratio and take the percent and divide by 100?? i have a test tomorrow kind of important...

Answer 3

Actually you don't take the percent and divide by 100. You take the theoretical amount and multiply by (percent/100). That may be what you said. I jus wanted to clarify. Sorry I was so long in gtting back but I had to leave the house for about 5 hours.

Answer 4

o that's ok i got a 98 on my test. thanks. I just missed one but it wasn't that.

Answer 5

Thanks so much for posting this. I have a test tomorrow as well and I was stuck on a lot of the problems til I found this.