Question

The Separation of Three Organic Compounds by Acid, Base Reactions and Liquid, Liquid Extraction.

Okay, so we had solid benzoic acid, ethyl 4- aminobenzoate, and 9-fluorenone all dissolved in methyleene chloride. We separated the basic component by adding 3M HCl, we separated the acidic component by adding 3M NaOH. I don't understand what happens here. To isolate the acidic solution, we added 6 M NaOH and used the vacuum to recover the solid. To isolate the basic solution we added 6M HCl.

I did an experiment where a 1:1:1 mixture of Benzoic Acid solid (C6H5COOH), ethyl 4-aminobenzoate solid (C9H11NO2), and 9-fluorenone solid (C13H8O) was dissolved with methylene chloride. Then each component was extracted and tested. I need to come up with a proton transfer chemical reaction that represents what happened in each separation.

First separation: HCl was added and two layers formed. aqueous layer was extracted and transfer to a clean container and methylene chlotide layer was left aside. NaOH was added dropwise to aqueouse layer extraction and vacuum filtration was used to extract/separate the basic component ethyl 4-aminobenzoate solid (C9H11NO2).....

Im suppose to explain the 4 reactions that happened but i cant i dont really undestand .

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