Acid Base Extraction lab 4

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Acid Base Extraction Nicolas Tapia Stoll (with Gavin Wagner) Professor Paul Slawek 14 st March 2023 Introduction: The purpose of this experiment was to separate three different organic compounds (Benzoic Acid, Ethyl-4-aminobenzoate, and 9-Fluorenone) from a mixture in accordance with their different pH levels, through the process of acid-base extraction. Since each compound has a different pH, whereby the benzoic acid is acidic, the 9- Fluorene is neutral, and the Ethyl-4-aminobenzoate is basic (PubChem), the hypothesis can be made that the experiment will be able to separate each organic compound successfully form each other in the mixture at different stages of the acid-base extraction process.
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Results: Ethyl 4-Aminobenzoate Beaker B (base) Benzoic Acid Beaker E (acid) 9-Fluorene Beaker D (neutral) Initial weight (g) 0.0639 0.0532 0.0503 Filter paper weight (g) 0.1869 0.1782 Filter paper + acid or base weight (g) 0.1880 0.2113 Pre-weighted beaker (g) 29.5266 Pre-weighted beaker + neutral compound weight (g) 29.5754 Final weight (g) 0.0011 0.0331 0.0488 Calculated Results: Ethyl 4-Aminobenzoate Beaker B (base) Benzoic Acid Beaker E (acid) 9-Fluorene Beaker D (neutral) Theoretical Yield 0.0639 0.0532 0.0503 % Yield 1.72% 62.2% 97.0% % Yield = ?𝑖?𝑎𝑙 𝑤?𝑖?ℎ𝑡 𝑡ℎ??𝑟?𝑡𝑖?𝑎𝑙 𝑦𝑖?𝑙? (𝑖??𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑤?𝑖?ℎ𝑡) ∗ 100 Ethyl 4-Aminobenzoate % Yield = 0.0011 0.0639 ∗ 100 = 1.72% Benzoic Acid % Yield = 0.0331 0.0532 ∗ 100 = 62.2% 9-Fluorene% Yield = 0.0488 0.0503 ∗ 100 = 97.0%
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Conclusion: From these experimental findings, one can infer that the acid-base extraction process did in fact work, due to the addition of the HCl, protonating the Ethyl 4- Aminobenzoate, and later the NaOH in deprotonating the benzoic acid, causing these two too, when this happens within the experimental process to separate from the rest of the mixture. Overall the hypothesis is therefore correct, as some part of each of the organic compounds was recovered. Although the % Yield for Ethyl 4-Aminobenzoate turned out to be significantly smaller than that for the rest of the organic compounds, it is possible that this could have been caused by a failure to correctly allow the hydrochloric acid to fully protonate it, a failure in giving it enough time to fully do so, or just an error in correctly extracting it from the separated layer. In a future repetition of this experiment steps could be taken to ensure that this part of the acid base extraction are done more accurately and properly in order to hopefully achieve a better recovery yield for the organic compound. Bibliography: U.S. National Library of Medicine. (n.d.). 9-fluorenone . National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubChem Compound Database. Retrieved March 20, 2023, from https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Benzoic-acid U.S. National Library of Medicine. (n.d.). 9-fluorenone . National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubChem Compound Database. Retrieved March 20, 2023, from https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Ethyl-4-aminobenzoate
U.S. National Library of Medicine. (n.d.). 9-fluorenone . National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubChem Compound Database. Retrieved March 20, 2023, from https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/9-Fluorenone