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during the lab preparation of aspirin, a student used 1.92 g of salicylic acid and an excess amount of acetic anhydride

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 8:30 am
by answerhappygod
during the lab preparation of aspirin, a student used 1.92 g of
salicylic acid and an excess amount of acetic anhydride for the
reaction and obtained 1.48 g of product aspirin. what is the
percentage of yield of aspirin obtained by the student? (molar mass
of salicylic acid = 138.12 g/mol and molar mass of aspirin =
180.16 g/mol)