Question

Hi! Can you please answer questions a and b for my organic lab report :) The pictures below the questions is my lab procedure.

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6. Analysis Questions: a) This lab utilized a new technique called reflux, and the use of a condenser tube while heating the reaction. What is the purpose of the condenser? Why not just heat the reaction in a closed vessel instead? b) A student misread the instructions and first refluxed the sodium methoxide in ethanol with the ethyl iodide for 15 minutes, and then later added the acetaminophen. No phenacetin was produced, but another reaction occurred creating a different product. What final product do you think was produced instead?

Answer 1

to condese the -sol @ 402 The purpose of a condenser is gaseous baxticle le vaboure firstly, what is condensatione ف يطمعوه طه جمعهطمولا لمعه converted into liquid form by lowering the temperature. Enderneer If we do not use condenser and simply heat the reaction mixture in closed vessel tham due to the vapours to a very high pressure gets created inside the Wessel (since there is no escape for gas ). It load tem may cause blast and breakage of vessel . - CH₂-Ō Nat +4, C-CH, - I - CH₂-Cha-CH₂ - AN-co-cha + Na I: + C- costly No reactionat -OH hence bH - No phenacetin The final product is formation. a ether compound methoxyethane is formed. GOOD WRITE