Procedure: Experiment 1
Add 4mL-5mL of Transfer the trace
Weigh out 2.00
grams of Salicylic
acid (Aspirin).
Put a piece of filter
paper in the funnel
then turn on the
aspirator.
Pour out the aspirin
to the funnel. Rinse
the Erlenmeyer flask
to make sure that all
the aspirin was
transferred.
Weigh the air-dried
filter paper and the
aspirin sample.
Add 5 drops of
liquid Acetic Salicylic acid mixture concentrated
anhydride to the into the Erlenmeyer Sulfuric acid then
traces of Salicylic flask then mix. heat it in the boiling
acid in the weigh water bath for 10
boat then swirl it. minutes.
Put it in a cold-water After 10 minutes of
bath for 10 minutes heating or when the
Filtration of aspirin
to allow the aspirin solution has a
from the solution.
crystals to form. yellowish-brown tint
in it, add 10mL of
water then mix it.
After filtration, lift
the paper from the
Add 60mL of water Wait for the crystals
funnel and rinse it
and stir. to form then put it
with an Alcohol
again in the ice-cold
(Ethanol) for
bath.
recrystallization.
Take out the filter Turn on the Weigh the filter
paper and put it on aspirator and start paper and place it
a watch glass. Air the filtering. again in the funnel
dry the sample. for filtration.