Toluene Synthesis Lab

The purpose of this lab was to determine the limiting reactant in a mixture of to soluble salts and the percent composition of each substance in a salt mixture.

The purpose of this lab is to test substances and to determine the physical and chemical properties of substances.

Whereas for simple distillation, the compounds need to be around 80C apart in order for proper separation to occur. Thus, cyclohexane and toluene were not able to be properly separated since the boiling point for cyclohexane was 80.74C while the boiling point of toluene was 110.6C—there two boiling points are fairly close to one another. Thus, the mole fraction for cyclohexane and toluene were fairly low when compared to cyclohexane and

Objective: The main goal of this lab is to learn how separation of binary liquid mixtures is performed. Especially when the two liquids have boiling points varying by about 30° C. Hexane can be separated from toluene in this experiment because of the difference in their boiling points. Since toluene has a higher boiling point, it will left at the bottom while the hexane starts to boil out and collect in the Hickman still. GC measurements help us in determining how accurate our data is by making a graph of the amount of hexane and toluene in each fraction. Also this lab gives experience with semi-micro

The purpose of this experiment is to familiarize oneself with the general procedures determining a partition coefficient at the microscale level and learn in weighing milligram quantities of materials on an electronic balance, the use of automatic pipets, the use of transfer pipet, and the use of a vortex mixer. Also, to familiarize oneself with extraction

The purpose of this lab was for the student to get involved with his or hers new lab kit as well as being able to know, identify and use each other tools provided in the kit. Another key learning aspect of this lab is to teach the student how to measure properly the many units in the SI system. I will be using laboratory dilutions, measurements, and weights to then calculate using algebraic formula.

1.) Briefly explain the concept of steam distillation. What is the difference between a simple distillation and a steam distillation? When a mixture of two immiscible liquids are distilled it is referred to as codistillation. This process is referred to as steam distillation when one of the liquids is water. This distillation is used to separate organic liquids from natural products and reaction mixtures in which the final product results in high boiling residues such as tars, inorganic salts, and other relatively involatile components. It is useful in isolating volatile oils from various parts of plants and not useful in the final purification of a

The objective of this lab was to separate a mixture that consisted of elements and compounds. There are seven ways to separate a mixture which included paper chromatography, filtration, evaporation, simple distillation, fractional distillation, magnetism, and separating funnel. The only methods used in this lab were filtration, evaporation, magnetism, and separating funnel. The method of magnetism was used when the magnet was moved under the mixture to separate the iron. The process of filtration involved the use of a filter paper placed in a filter funnel. The funnel was placed in a beaker and the mixture of water, sand, and sodium chloride was poured into the funnel. The liquid part drained through the filter paper into the beaker, leaving the solid sand particles trapped on the filter. After the water and sodium chloride were in a beaker, the process of evaporation was used. The compound was boiled on a hot plate, which led to the water

Distillation is a method of separating two volatile chemicals on the basis of their differing boiling points. During this lab, students were given 30 mL of an unknown solution containing two colorless chemicals. Because the chemicals may have had a relatively close boiling point, we had to employ a fractional distillation over a simple distillation. By adding a fractionating column between the boiling flask and the condenser, we were able to separate the liquids more efficiently due to the fact that more volatile liquids tend to push towards the top of the fractionating column, thereby leaving the liquid with the lower boiling point towards the bottom. After obtaining the distillates, we utilized a gas chromatograph in order to analyze the volatile substances in the gas phase and determine their composition percentage of the initial solution. Overall, through this lab we were able to enhance our knowledge on the practical utilization of chemical theories, and thus also demonstrated technical fluency involving the equipment.

Dispense .5 mL water into the already weighed conical vial, replace cap and face insert on its down side.

The boiling range of the 1-pentyl ethanoate distillate was approximately between 149-151°C. This was indicated by the formation of the distillate and when the mixture of the purified 1-pentyl ethanoate started to vigorously

The purpose of this experiment was to separate a two component mixture using fractional distillation. Distillation is a process of vaporization than condensation of a substance, used primarily to separate substances from a mixture when there are different boiling points. Fractional distillation is when the mixture has multiple substances with similar boiling points, and a fractional column is used to create multiple vaporization/condensation cycles. Fractional distillation is important when two or more substances need to be separated, but they have similar boiling points.

Stage 1: Oxidation of Toluene to Benzoic acid. • Toluene + Oxygen → Benzoic acid + Water. • Catalyst: Cobalt Naphthenate. • Operating conditions: 150°C and 3 atms.

Materials. The following chemicals are purchased and used as received. Cadmium oxide (CdO, 99.99 %), and potassium sulfide (K2S, 95 %) are obtained from Strem Chemicals. 1-octadecene (90 %), 3-mercaptopropionic acid (99 %), and α-terpineol (97 %) are purchased from Acros Organics. Selenium powder (Se, 99.99 %), oleic acid (OLAC, 90 %), oleylamine (OLAM, 70 %) and acetic acid (99.7 %) are purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Toluene (99.9 %), 2-propanol (99.9 %), ethanol (90 %), acetonitrile (99.9 %), and formamide (FA, 99.6 %) are acquired from Fisher Scientific. P25 TiO2 and ethyl cellulose (5 % in toluene and ethanol) are supplied by Evonik Degussa Corporation and TCI, respectively. OLAC, OLAM, and FA are dried using standard procedures.

Distillation is the process of which liquid is changed into it’s vapor state which in turn is changed by condensing the vapor back to the liquid state. This process is used to separate and purify liquids. The process begins a distillation apparatus. After the evaporation process begins and ends, the vapor will have evaporated while the purified substance will condense with cool water. In this lab, the purpose is to separate two liquids, cyclohexane and toluene or cyclohexane and p-xylene. During the process, the volume and temperature were recorded at each milliliter. This would show the different boiling points. Then using gas chromatography, we would be able to identify the correct peak. If the difference between the