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CHM 257 Lab Report 1
CHM 257 Lab Report 1
PROCEDURE :
PROCEDURE OBSERVATION
1. 2 g of vanillin weighed into 250 ml A crystal of vanillin was weighed on a weighing
Erlenmeyer flask. machine. We obtained 2.0021 g of vanillin and 0.3755 g
of filter paper.
2. Stir 50 ml of water in the flask. The crystal of vanillin was dissolved incompletely.
3. The solution heated with Bunsen The crystal of vanillin was heated and the colour
burner until boiling point and stir change from white to colourless. The vanillin dissolved
until all vanillin dissolved. completely.
4. Stir the solution in flask that placed in After stirring the solution for 5 minutes the precipitate
ice bath for 5 minutes. present.
5. A piece of wet filter paper fitted to The filter paper must stick to the Buchner surface. At
the Buchner funnel. The vanillin was this stage, the tap water must be opened all the time to
vacuum filtered. The Erlenmeyer flask let the water flow. We make sure that the crystal dry in
was rinse twice with ice-cooled water Buchner flask.
along with the crystals.
6. The crystals emptied onto a weighed The dried crystals + filter paper in a petry dish for 3
filter paper and placed in the desk to weeks
dry.
7. The automatic melting point The apparatus was set up as in the manual.
determination machine called Mel-
Temp apparatus was used.
8. The capillary tube filled with The recrystallized vanillin was grind in a mortar to make
recrystallized vanillin at the open end powder so that it is easier to be pressed to the open
until there is about 0.5 – 1 cm sample end of the tube.
length.
9. The capillary tube was dropped The powder in the capillary tube was dropped until it
through 1 m piece of 6 mm of glass reached the bottom of the tube.
tubing held on hard surface.
10. The impact caused the sample to The powder length in the tube after the impact was 1
drop to bottom of the tube mm. Then we put the capillary tube in the hole of Mel-
Temp apparatus.
11. Then we put the capillary tube in the When the plateau light is on, we pushed the start
hole of Mel-Temp apparatus. button. After that the ramping light is on too. When the
temperature reached 80℃ the powder start to melt.
Then when it reached 83℃ it liquefies completely. This
is because it contains impurities as there is presence of
foreign matter in it. Finally we let the sample cool to
room temperature.
12. Fill the capillary tube with crude The procedure for recrystallized vanillin is the same for
vanillin. crude vanillin. When the temperature reached 81℃ the
crude vanillin start to melt. Then when it reached 83℃
it liquefies completely. Finally we let the sample cool to
room temperature.
RESULTS :
RECRYSTALLIZED VANILLIN RESULT :
DATA READING
Mass of crude vanillin 2.0021 g
Mass of empty filter paper 0.3755 g
Mass of recrystallize of vanillin + filter paper 2.1774 g
Mass of recrystallize of vanillin 1.8019 g
DATA READING
Melting point of crude vanillin 81℃ - 83℃
Melting point recrystallized vanillin 80℃ - 83℃
PERCENT RECOVERY :
= 10% loss
1℃ 1% - 10% impurities
90% of the recrystallized vanillin is pure vanillin while 10% of the recrystallized
vanillin is the impurities. This shows that although we vacuum filter the solution but
the impurities still able to escape.
DISCUSSION OF RESULTS :
The technique used in the experiment are the selection of the appropriate
solvent, dissolution of the solid to be purified in the solvent near or at its boiling
point, formation of crystalline solid from the solution as it cools, the filtration of the
purified solid that will be isolated and drying the crystals [Gilbert & Martin, 2002].
In this experiment, we need to weigh the vanillin crystal which is put on the
weighing paper in the weighing machine to get the mass of the vanillin crystal. The
mass of vanillin crystal is 2.0021 g. Then we heated the vanillin crystal in 250 ml
Erlenmeyer flask which added with distilled water that act as a solvent. We use
Erlenmeyer flask instead of a beaker because beaker is not a suitable vessel for
recrystallization because it has a relatively large surface area to which recrystallized
product may stick thus; lowering the efficiency of recovery. We need to heat the
vanillin crystal because as the solvent temperature increased, the solubility of solids
in liquids will increase significantly too. Furthermore, almost all solids are more
soluble in a hot than in a cold solvent [Gilbert & Martin, 2002].
After stirring the solution for 5 minutes the precipitate present. The extent to
which the solid precipitates depends on the difference in its solubility in the
particular solvent at temperatures between the extreme used. When we vacuum
filter the vanillin, the tap water must be opened all the time to let the water flow. We
make sure that the crystal dry in Buchner flask so that it will not drip. We let the
crystal in the desk to dry for three weeks before we further to the second
experiment.
In this experiment, we managed to obtain the melting point for the crude
vanillin which is 81℃ - 83℃. However, the melting point for recrystallized vanillin is
80℃ - 83℃. The percent recovery for recrystallized vanillin is 90% pure vanillin while
the other 10% is its’ loss. This happened because the sample is impurity as there is
some foreign matter present in the sample. The purity of compound or the pure
compound is a homogenous sample consisting only of molecules having the same
structure. So, it could be that the recrystallized vanillin is impure due to the presence
of contaminants like paper fibre from filter paper [Gilbert & Martin, 2002]. The
difference of the melting point between crude vanillin and the recrystallized vanillin
is 1℃ equivalent to 1% - 10% loss.
While conducting these experiments, some errors occurred like in the first
experiment we did not plaster the Buchner funnel to the Erlenmeyer flask properly.
This has caused the loss of water pressure inside the flask. So, to overcome this
problem, we redo the plastering by plastering it tighter than before. Besides that, in
the second experiment we did not stay near Mel-Temp apparatus when the
temperature of recrystallized vanillin exceed to 80℃ thus; we get quite a large range
of temperature reading compared to the crude vanillin temperature range. So, we
redo it by using new capillary tube filled with recrystallized vanillin and stay near the
Mel-Temp apparatus until we managed to get the temperature correctly.
CONCLUSION :
From the experiment, I can conclude that the purpose of this experiment is to purify
the vanillin by recrystallization procedure, to determine the recovery percentage and
to determine the melting point by using capillary tube. The melting point for
recrystallized vanillin is 80℃ - 83℃ while the temperature for crude vanillin is 81℃ -
83℃. The percent recovery is 90% pure vanillin while the other 10% is its loss.
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