Question 1040860: How many grams of aspririn will be produced if I have 2.345g of salicylic acid and enough acetic anyhydride in the reaction? Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, KMST:Answer by ikleyn(52788) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! One mole of salicylic acid plus enough acetic anhydride could produce one mole of acetylsalicylic acid (aka aspirin).
Their molar masses are and , so the ratio of masses of aspirin to salicylic acid will be .
That means that of salicylic acid could produce of aspirin.
NOTES:
Since the mass of salicylic acid was given with 4 significant digits,
giving the answer with 4 significant digits makes science sense.
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