T-Pentyl Chloride Lab Report

t-Pentyl Chloride is a compound that is created through an SN1 nucleophilic substitution reaction in addition with Hydrogen Chloride in order to isolate the product. A variety of procedural techniques were utilized during the experiment including extraction, washing liquids, drying liquids, gravity filtration, and simple distillation. When a single solute or compound is transferred between two different solutes, it is known as extraction. Another technique that was utilized was washing, in which impurities in a compound are removed through phase transfer. For example, water can be used to separate impurities from the wanted product in an organic bi-layer because of the different densities. A process known as drying was also utilized in which
This value is then placed over 1 mL of the t-pentyl alcohol so it can be converted into grams. In order to convert from grams to moles, t-pentyl alcohol is multiplied by 1 mole of t-pentyl alcohol and this value is placed over the molar mass of t-pentyl alcohol, 88.2 grams. This value is then multiplied by 1 mole of t-pentyl chloride over 1 mole of t-pentyl alcohol to get the theoretical yield, .201 moles of t-pentyl
The product that was obtained was a little cloudy indicating that the final product was not entirely pure. The observed boiling point in this experiment through simple distillation was in a range between 70 and 74 degrees centigrade. This suggests that the synthesis completed created a product of very high purity. The theoretical boiling point of this compound lies in a range of 85 to 86 degrees centigrade while the observed boiling point was in a range between 76 to 80 degrees centigrade. The density of t-Pentyl Chloride is .866 g/mL, less than the density of water, which indicates that it should float on top of the water in the mixture during the extractions and washings techniques, as it did. The mass of the compound that was obtained in this experiment was 14.87