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Synthesis Of T-Pentyl Chloride Lab Report

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Introduction:
The purpose of this experiment was to synthesize t-pentyl chloride from the reaction of t-pentyl alcohol and concentrated HCl. This reaction occurred through an SN1 reaction, a unimolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction. This was a First Order Rate Reaction where the rate of t-pentyl chloride was dependent only on the concentration of t-pentyl alcohol. After the reaction was completed, the products were achieved via 3 liquid-liquid extractions and then after by simple distillation. In the liquid- liquid extractions a solute was transferred from one solvent to another. Then in the simple distillation the miscible liquids or the solution, was separated by differences in boiling points. After this the product was determined through infrared spectroscopy.
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Isolation of Crude Product
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In the process, extraction and distillation techniques were used. The theoretical amount of t- pentyl chloride was 17.358g, while 15.78 g was the actual amount produced which gave a percent yield of 90.9%. An error occurred while performing the experiment, the filtered dried product in the distillation process was placed in the wrong flask. Due to this that part of the experiment had to be redone and the new filtered product had some aqueous solution in it, which caused the boiling point to be under the specified temperature. The boiling point then was at 50 ℃ compared with the expected range of 79- 84 ℃. The IR spectrum used above was from another group’s results. The experimental IR spectrum has more prominent peaks in the 3000 cm-1 range compared to the expected IR spectrum. Nonetheless, the experimental IR spectrum resembles the expected IR spectrum in the sense that the peaks are closely around the same wavenumber range. This is probably due to the product being distilled at the right boiling

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