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Chapter 23: Q3P (page 629)

If you wish to extract aqueous acetic acid into hexane, is it more effective to adjust the aqueous phase to or ?

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When the pH is adjusted to 8, it becomes a basic solution and acetic acid would be in its anionic form.

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Let us determine whether it is more effective to adjust the aqueous phase to pH3orpH8 if we intend to extract aqueous acetic acid into hexane.

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Now, let us adjust the aqueous phase to pH=3

  • The acetic acid has a low localid="1654834546504" pH,and as we said before - similar dissolves in similar
  • When the pH gets adjusted to 8, this would be a basic solution and acetic acid would be in its anionic form.
  • It is to be noted that we didn’t want an anion, but the acid in its original form.
  • Result :
    When we extract aqueous acetic acid into hexane andpH is adjusted to 8, it becomes a basic solution and acetic acid would be in its anionic form.

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