what experimental difficulty would you encounter if you had neglected to include a drying step before evaporating the ether solution of the neutral organic compound?
Water was added to the organic solvent ,but a drying agent wasn't added. So would the difficulty be a separation of layer and an increase in boiling point due to the water?
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You don't provide enough information to answer the question. What neutral compound? What experiment did you do? What steps were involved?
we did an extraction of a mixture between neutral compound fluorene and an unknown carboxylic acid. Diethyl ether was used as the organic solvent while NaOH was used as the aqueous solvent. After extracting the unknown acid we also had to extract the neutral compound and to do that we were suppose to add water to wash the NaOH and then a drying agent was suppose to be added. What would happen if we didn't add the drying agent?
there would be impurites in ur in your crystals..therefore u may find a larger percent recovery that expected or there may be slight discoloration in your crystals.