Aspirin Synthesis Lab Report
1. What is the more formal chemical name for aspirin?
Acetylsalicylic acid
2. Using your data from Experiment 2, how can you be sure you synthesized aspirin? By using the colors as a guide, we can compare the Acetylsalicylic acid + 8 mL FeCl3 to the Aspirin Crystals from Experiment 1 + 8 mL FeCl3 in order to see if it synthesized.
3. Would you say that your synthesized aspirin is relatively pure? How can you tell?
One way that the purity of aspirin can be judged is by it's color as pure acetylsalicylic acid is a brown color. I would say my synthesized aspirin is relatively pure but it is not fully the brown color since some of the salicylic acid remains adding a light purple shade.
4. What could have caused your percent yield to
Acetylsalicylic acid
2. Using your data from Experiment 2, how can you be sure you synthesized aspirin? By using the colors as a guide, we can compare the Acetylsalicylic acid + 8 mL FeCl3 to the Aspirin Crystals from Experiment 1 + 8 mL FeCl3 in order to see if it synthesized.
3. Would you say that your synthesized aspirin is relatively pure? How can you tell?
One way that the purity of aspirin can be judged is by it's color as pure acetylsalicylic acid is a brown color. I would say my synthesized aspirin is relatively pure but it is not fully the brown color since some of the salicylic acid remains adding a light purple shade.
4. What could have caused your percent yield to