Question

3. A student carries out the clay-catalyzed dehydration of cyclohexanol starting with 10 moles of cyclohexanol and obtains 500 mL of pure cyclohexene product. Calculate the student’s percent yield for this reaction. Show your work.

Answer 1

Answer:

$49.45~%$

Explanation:

In this case, we have to start with the chemical reaction:

$C_6H_1_2O~->~C_6H_1_0~+~H_2O$

So, if we start with 10 mol of cyclohexanol ($C_6H_1_2O$) we will obtain 10 mol of cyclohexanol ($C_6H_1_0$). So, we can calculate the grams of cyclohexanol if we calculate the molar mass:

$(6*12)+(10*1)=82~g/mol$

With this value we can calculate the grams:

$10~mol~C_6H_1_0\frac{82~g~C_6H_1_0}{1~mol~C_6H_1_0}=820~g~C_6H_1_0$

Now, we have as a product 500 mL of $C_6H_1_0$. If we use the density value (0.811 g/mL). We can calculate the grams of product:

$500~mL\frac{0.811~g}{1~mL}=405.5~g$

Finally, with these values we can calculate the yield:

$%~=~\frac{405.5}{820}x100~=~49.45%$%= (405.5/820)*100 = 49.45 %

See figure 1

I hope it helps!