What is Aspirin? Aspirin is on of the first drugs to ever be commonly used and is still one of the most widely used in the world. How widely used you ask? Approximately 35000 metric tonnes are produced and consumed every year. Chemically aspirin is known as acetylsalicylic acid with the chemical formula of C9H8O4. Aspirin is an analgesic‚ anti-inflammatory‚ antipyretic‚ and is an inhibitor of platelet aggregation. The history of Aspirin Aspirin has been a major part of just about everyone’s
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Equation 3. The purified aspirin product was a white powder that had a weight of .140 g. The number of moles of the purified aspirin product after extraction was 7.77 x 10-4 as shown in Equation 4. These two moles calculated a chemical yield of 54.3% as shown in Equation 5. The melting point of the pure aspirin product was ranged at 117.8-125.2C as shown in Table 1. An infrared spectrum for the pure aspirin from the synthesis was taken by using crushed crystals‚ Figure 1. This spectrum was shown
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significant quantities of reactants still remaining. In addition‚ separating the desired product from the rest of the reaction mixture‚ and then purifying it‚ will result in the loss of more of the product. The amount of product obtained expressed as a percentage of the theoretical maximum amount possible and is known as the percentage yield. Percentage yield = Actual mass of product × 100 Predicted mass of product When deciding on quantities of reactants to use‚ you must consider: how much product
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Investigating Aspirin Aims Synthesize my own aspirin Analyse the purity of my aspirin samples (aspirin and recrystallized aspirin) compared to commercial aspirin by use of analysing melting points‚ TLC plates and colorimetry tests Investigate how pH effects the rate of hydrolysis of aspirin Background theory Making my own sample of Salicylic acid (to then be converted into Aspirin) Salicylic acid (2-Hydroxybenzoic acid) can be made by hydrolysing methyl 2-hydroxybenzoate. Oil
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Determining the Percentage of 2-ethanoylhydroxybenzoic Acid in an Aspirin Tablet Introduction and Aim: An Aspirin tablet is an analgesic; therefore the purpose is to relieve pain and due to it also being an antipyretic its other tenacity is to lower the body temperature. An experiment was carried out on the basis of calculating the percentage of 2-ethanoylhydroxybenzoic Acid in aspirin tablets hence 4 commercial tablets were taken to determine its purity using a known volume of standard sodium hydroxide
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Experiment 7a Name: Date: Title: Purity of Aspirin by Spectrophotometry Aim: i. To measure the absorbance of different volumes of sodium salicylate solutions and aspirin with iron chloride ii. To find the concentration of each standard solutions iii. To determine percentage purity of aspirin. Abstract: The mass of acetylsalicylic acid was determined using a analytical balance. Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) was added to the acetylsalicylic acid and heated in order to hydrolyze acetylsalicylic
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alternative to aspirin. Such a positioning will be able to attract current aspirin customers to Datril. The marketing campaign should focus on physicians‚ trade and patients. It should stress the information of little side effects compared to other analgesic medicine. Both the retail price and the trade price should be lower than Tylenol. Segmentation and targeting: Datril should target on aspirin users. Datril potential clients could be 1) people currently using aspirin 2) people currently
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Aspirin has been a pain reliever for more than 100 years. Aspirin has been used as a remedy for many illnesses for centuries now and still more things are yet to be identified about aspirin and its uses. It was recently discovered that aspirin can be used to reduce clotting of the platelets in the blood vessels‚ thus reducing the risk of heart attack in humans. Most students in their youthful age were not able to give their heart the maximum care it deserved‚ as a result‚ it leads to heart related
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Aspirin analysis Introduction Aspirin‚ which is also known as acetylsalicylic acid. C9H8O4 is the chemical format for Asprin. The chemical structure of aspirin: Aspirin is anti-inflammatory. Aspirin is prepared by chemical synthesis from salicylic acid‚ by acetylation with acetic anhydride. The fact that it is an acid allows us to quantify the amount of aspirin in a solution. We would do this by by using an acid-base titration. Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) will be used In this experiment as the
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CH4300/PY5140 - EXPERIMENT 2 – Answer Sheet SYNTHESIS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL ASPIRIN (ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID) Aim: The aim of this experiment was to react salicylic acid with ethanoic anhydride to produce Aspirin. CH3CO)2O + HOC6H4COOH → CH3CO2C6H4CO2H + CH3COOH i Mass: 5g Volume: 7.5 cm3 Mass: 6.52g RMM: 138g/mol RMM: 180g/mol Moles: 5/138 = 0.0362 RMM: 102g/mol Moles: 0.0362 OBSERVATIONS – First‚ Ethanoic acid was added to the salicylic acid which resulted
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