Distillation Lab Essay

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October 7, 2012 Organic Chemistry Lab Write Up 3: Distillation Lab Title: Distillation Purpose: The process of distillation has been been used for many years, and will continue to be beneficial to purify compounds, as well as help recycle used solvents. Procedure: Reference from Williamson, Kenneth L. Organic Experiments. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Print. and Handout Chemical Basis: Chemicals used in the reaction were: Methanol! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Water CH3-CH2-OH!! C2H6O! ! ! MW: 46.07 g/mol! BP: 78.37oC! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! O-H-O H2O MW: 18.01 g/mol BP: 99.98oC 2-methyl-2-propanol tert-butanol (unknown) C4H10O MW: 74.12 g/mol BP: 82.2oC Data: Simple Distillation of 95% EtOH (mL) (DM) First Drop 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Temperature (C) 77 79 80 81 81 81 81 81 81 82 82.5 83 85 87 90 92 95 96 98 100 100 100 Fractional Distillation of 95% EtOH (mL) (Partner) Temperature (C) First Drop 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 72 75 77 78 78 78 78.5 79 80 81 82 82 82 82 82 90 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Fraction Distillation of Unknown A (mL) (DM) Temperature (C) First Drop 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 95 97 98 99 100 100 100 100 53 59 60 60 61 62 62 62 62 63 64 64 64 64 64 64 65 65 66 66 67 68 68 68 69 69 70 70 71 72 73 74 74 75 77 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 78 79 79 79 80 81 81 81 81 81 78 Unknown A with a Boiling Point of ~81 degrees Celsius is 2-methyl-2-propanol Percent Error of Unknown A = |Expected BP - Theoretical BP | / Theoretical BP x100 = |81-82|/82 x100 = 1.22% error Discussion, Questions and Conclusion: The distillation process is used to purify compounds, such as 95% Ethanol & 5% Water and tert-butanol. In this lab the purification of 95% Ethanol & 5% Water by the use of the simple distillation process while Edward used

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