Answer: -
The first step involves protonation of the carbonyl oxygen.
After protonation, the Alcohol oxygen now attacks the carbon of the carbonyl.
Thus a six membered ring is formed with 5 carbon atoms and 1 oxygen atom. The 1st position carbon atom has 2 OH groups.
One of these gets again protonated.
This leaves as water. With the loss of the H+, there results a carbonyl at 1 position.
Thus 5-hydroxypentanoic acid forms a lactone or 2-oxanone in presence of acid.
Answer:
1040%
Explanation:
To solve this question we must convert the mass of Iron to moles in order to find limiting reactant. With limiting reactant we can find the theoretical moles of hydrogen and theoretical mass:
Percent yield = Actual yield (5.40g) / Theoretical yield * 100
<em>Moles Fe -Molar mass: 55.845g/mol-:</em>
10.3g * (1mol / 55.845g) = 0.184 moles of Fe will react.
For a complete reaction of these moles there are necessaries:
0.184 moles Fe* ( 3 mol H2SO4 / 2 mol Fe) = 0.277 moles H2SO4.
As there are 14.8 moles of the acid, <em>Fe is limiting reasctant.</em>
The moles of H2 produced are:
0.184 moles Fe* ( 3 mol H2 / 2 mol Fe) = 0.277 moles H2
The mass is:
0.277 moles H2 * (2.016g/mol) = 0.558g H2
Percent yield is:
5.40g / 0.558g * 100 = 1040%
It is possible the experiment wasn't performed correctly
