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Procedures
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Clean glassware with DI water and then acetone

Weigh out 0.80g of salicylic acid into a dry 25ml
RBF. Add 5 ml of acetic acid from a pre-adjusted
dispenser in the fume hood. Add 2 drops of
concentrated H2SO4.
Swirl the solution gently and avoid splashing it onto
the internal wall of the flask
Add a small magnetic stirrer bar. Add a Liebig
Condenser at the top of the RBF, secure the flask
and condenser with a clamp. Set up a reflux system/
Heat the reaction mixture, with the oil bath set to
150oC, until the solution turns clear. Continue
heating for another 20 minutes.

Pre-cool about 100ml of DI water in a 100ml

Erlenmeyer and an empty 50ml Erlenmeyer
After 20 min of reaction, cool the reaction flask and
6. its content to room temperature for 5 min before
immersing the flask in an ice water bath for 5min, a
white precipitate should form.
Transfer the content from the RBF into the prechilled 50ml Erlenmeyer flask. Transfer the residual
7.
reaction mixture with 25ml of cold deionized water.
Gather all reaction mixture in the 50ml Erlenmeyer
flask. Stir well with a spatula for 10min
Recover the solid by suction filtration and wash the
8.
crystals with 2 portions of 25ml of cold deionized
water
Collect the solid on a pre-weighted glass watch.
9.
Spread the solid on the glass watch and dry under
IR lamp
10. Determine mass/yield and melting point of product
obtained

Observations