Never handle sodium hydroxide pellets with your fingers. Use weighing paper and a scoopula. Solid sodium hydroxide will absorb water from the atmosphere. It is hygroscopic. Do not leave the container of sodium hydroxide open.
Keep ethanol and ethanol-water mixtures away from open flames.
Aqueous iron chloride will stain clothes permanently and is irritating to the skin. Avoid contact with this material.
In this experiment, you will saponify a vegetable oil
Pour 5 mL (5.0 g) of vegetable oil into a 250-mL beaker.
Slowly dissolve 2.5 g of NaOH pellets in 15 mL of the 50% ethanol/water mixture in a 50-mL beaker.
Add 2-3 mL of the NaOH solution to the beaker containing the oil. Heat the mixture over a hot plate with stirring. CAUTION: Keep your face away from the beaker and work at arm's length. Stirring is required to prevent spattering. Every few minutes, for the next 20 minutes, add portions of the ethanol/water mixture while continuing to stir to prevent spattering. After about 10 more minutes of heating and stirring, the oil should be dissolved and a homogenous solution should be obtained.
Add 25 mL of water to the hot solution. Using the hot grips, pour this solution into a 250 mL beaker containing 150 mL of saturated NaCl solution. Stir this mixture gently and permit it to cool for a few minutes.
Skim the soap layer off the top of the solution and place it in a 50-mL beaker.
Into a test tube, place a pea-sized lump of your soap. Place a similar amount of laundry detergent in a second tube and a similar amount of laundry detergent in a second tube and a similar amount of hand soap in a third tube. Add 10 mL of water to each tube. Stopper each tube and shake thoroughly.
Estimate the pH of the solution using wide-range indicator solution or wide-range test paper. Record the results. Pour the contents of the test tubes into the sink and rinse the tubes with water.
This assignment must be completed individually and turned in to your TA at the beginning of lab. You will not be allowed to begin the lab until you have completed this assignment.
For questions 1-4, draw the structural formulae of:
1) 2,2 - dimethylbutane
2) 3-ethyl-2,4-dimethylpentane
3) 2,3,4-trimethylhexane
4) 3-ethyl-2-methylheptane
For questions 5-8, give the names of
5)
6)
7)
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For questions 9-11, give the structural formulae for:
9) hex-3-ene
10) 3-methylhex-1-ene
11) 2,5- dimethylhex-2-ene
For questions 12-14, give the names of:
12)
13)
14)
For questions 15-19, give the stuctural formulae of:
15) trans-1,2-dibromoethene
16) trans-1-chloroprop-1-ene
17) cis- hex-2-ene
18) pent-1-yne
19) 3-methylbut-1-yne
For questions 20-25, name the following compounds:
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