YEAR 13 PRACTICAL 5 - A-Level Chemistry



Practical 22

The Preparation of Aspirin

(Core Practical 10a)

Stage 1: Preparation of Crude Product

|Salicylic acid is an irritant | |

|Phosphoric acid is corrosive | |

|Ethanoic anhydride is flammable | |

1. Place a 250 cm3 beaker, half-filled with water, on top of a tripod and gauze.

2. Clamp a 50 cm3 round-bottomed flask so that it is partially submerged in the beaker of water, and fit a reflux condenser to it vertically. Start to run water through the condenser.

3. Add two anti-bumping granules to the flask. Then weigh out 5.0 g of salicylic acid, 5.0 g of ethanoic anhydride, and 5.0 g of phosphoric acid into separate weighing bottles and add them, separately, into the flask through a funnel placed on top of the condenser.

4. Heat the water in the beaker and reflux the mixture for 30 minutes. While this is happening, pour 150 cm3 of distilled water into a 250 cm3 beaker and place it in an ice bath.

Stage 2: Separation of the product from the reaction mixture

5. Allow the reaction mixture to cool down for a few minutes, then dismantle the condenser and pour the reaction mixture into the cold water. Stir for a few minutes and allow the mixture to settle.

6. Filter the mixture through Buchner apparatus. Wash any residue remaining in the beaker into the funnel with more distilled water.

7. Remove the filter paper with the solid residue on it and scrape it into another beaker.

Stage 3: Purification of the crude product

8. Recrystallise the aspirin from the minimum quantity of boiling water.

Stage 4: Confirmation of yield and purity

9. Once the product is dry, transfer it into a weighing bottle and weigh it.

10. Determine the melting point of the sample.

Questions:

The structure of salicyclic acid is:

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a) Using structural formulae, write an equation for the reaction between salicylic acid and ethanoic anhydride.

b) Work out your percentage yield.

c) The melting point of pure aspirin is 135 oC. How pure is your sample? Explain how you know.

d) Explain the main safety precautions you took during this experiment and why you took them.

Recrystallisation – Purifying a Solid Organic Product

|Method |Reason |

|The solid is dissolved in the minimum possible quantity of | |

|hot solvent | |

|The solid should be soluble in hot solvent but not in cold | |

|solvent | |

|Filter through pre-heated funnel | |

|Allow to cool in an ice bath | |

|Filter under reduced pressure | |

|Wash the solid with a little cold solvent | |

|Dry the solid | |

Melting Point Determination – Testing the Purity of the Product

|Method |Reason |

|Pack 1 cm of the solid as densely as possible into the | |

|sealed end of the capillary tube | |

|Place the capillary tube in the melting point apparatus. | |

|Ensure that the apparatus heats up very slowly as the | |

|expected melting point of the substance approaches | |

|Record the temperature when the liquid starts to melt | |

|Record the temperature when the liquid finishes melting | |

|Compare the melting point range to the known melting point | |

|of the pure solid | |

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