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P-cymene
1. What is the purpose of your compound? How is it useful?
Answer: P-cymene naturally occurs in organic compound and it is easily
found in cumin. Also p-cymene is used in favoring the drinks, some bakery
such as cake and as well as fragrance.
2. What is the starting material to make your product?
Answer: Limonene
3. What is the % yield given in the paper?
Answer: 95%
4. How many grams of product were made?
Answer: 12.7g.
5. How many moles of product were made?
Answer: 0.095 mol
6. How many grams of product would be produced if they obtained a 97%
yield?
Answer: 1.23 g.

1 mol of pcymene

12.7 g . of pcymene

1.100 mol of limonen 1 mol of limomene 1 mol of pcymeme =1.27 g .

Theoretical yield=1.27 g
ActualYield
100=97
Theoretical yield
Actual yield
100=97
1.27
Actual yield=1.23 g .

7. If they started with 5 grams of starting material, how much product could
they have theoretically made?
Answer: 4.926 g.

1mol of Limonene
5 g . of Limonene=0.0367 mol of Limonene
136.24 g . of Limonene

0.0367 mol of Limonen

1mol of pcymene 134.21 g . of pcymene

=4.926 g .
1 mol of Limonene
1 mol of pcymene

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8. If we needed to make 10 grams of product, how much starting material
would we need to use?
Answer: 10.15 g.

10 g . of pcymene

1mol of pcymene
1 mol of limonene
136.24 g of limonene

=10.15 g .
134.21 g of pcymene 1 mol of pcymene
1 mol of limonene

Link: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2003/gc/b305233h