Nitration of Methylbenzoate lab report

Instructions lab report:

o You must have an introduction stating the purpose of the experiment.

o Summarize in your own words the experimental procedures carried out in the video called EAS Nitration Experiment and Recrystallization.

Summarize the experimental procedures from the video as instructions that you would find in a lab manual.

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o THIS IS THE VIDEO TO SUMMARIZE:

o Write down the chemical reaction for the experiment and the mechanism for the reaction as well.

o With the amounts listed in the video, find moles for reactants, find limiting reagent, and find theoretical number of grams of product.

o Find percent yield with the experimental number of grams mentioned in the video.

o Sources of errors to discuss low percent yield, inaccurate melting point compared to literature value, recrystallization process.