Simple & Fractional Distillation of a Mixture Along with Gas Chromatography Analysis

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Simple & Fractional Distillation of a Mixture Along With Gas Chromatography Analysis Introduction In this experiment we are using simple and fractional distillation to separate either the ethyl acetate/isopropyl acetate or the ethyl acetate/propyl acetate. We use simple distillation if separating liquid’s boiling point is below 150˚C at 1atm from nonvolatile impurities, and the other liquid’s boiling point 25˚C higher than the first. You would use fractional distillation when the separating liquid mixtures are soluble, and the difference of boiling point belonging to the mixture is less than 25˚C from each other. Using gas chromatography, we will be able to analyze our purity of the separated ester mixtures. Discussion The advantages of simple distillation would be that, simple distillation is faster and accurate enough to give us an idea of the separation. While the advantages of fractional distillation, is that the accuracy of the fractional distillation is better than simple. Also fractional distillation gives us a better separation and purity. Disadvantage of simple is that the separation of the mixture does not give us a high purity of the compounds. Fraction distillation takes up more time to separate, therefore giving us a better purity. The results of simple distillation for Ethyl acetate/isopropyl acetate is; A= 55.4% ethyl & 44.6% isopropyl, B= 59.8% ethyl & 40.2% isopropyl, C= 47.9% ethyl & 52.1% isopropyl, D= 36.7% ethyl & 63.3% isopropyl. Fractional; A= 63% ethyl & 37% isopropyl, B= 58% ethyl & 42% isopropyl, C= 49.9% ethyl & 50.1% isopropyl, D= 32.7% ethyl & 67.3% isopropyl. Simple distillation of ethyl acetate/propyl acetate; A= 72% ethyl & 28% propyl, B= 64.5% ethyl & 35.5% propyl, C= 48.2% ethyl & 51.8% propyl, D= 24.9% ethyl & 75.1% propyl. Fractional distillation; A= 74.5% ethyl & 25.5% propyl,

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