Nitration of Methyl Benzoate

There are no changes to the procedure for this experiment, except you will not determine the infrared spectrum of the product.

Things you need to know how to do:

• Recrystallization
  • Calculate the volume of needed recrystalization solvent
  • Disolve the crude product
  • Hot gravity filtration
  • Vacuum filtration
  • Drying product
  • Determine final mass
• Melting Point Determination
  • Pack a Capilary
  • Adjust heating rate
  • Reading melting point range
• Yeild
  • Theoretical Yield
  • Percent Yield

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