3. A student carries out the clay-catalyzed dehydration of cyclohexanol starting with 10 moles of cyclohexanol and obtains 500 mL of pure cyclohexene product. Calculate the student’s percent yield for this reaction. Show your work.

Explanation:

In this case, we have to start with the chemical reaction:

So, if we start with 10 mol of cyclohexanol () we will obtain 10 mol of cyclohexanol (). So, we can calculate the grams of cyclohexanol if we calculate the molar mass:

With this value we can calculate the grams:

Now, we have as a product 500 mL of . If we use the density value (0.811 g/mL). We can calculate the grams of product:

Finally, with these values we can calculate the yield:

%= (405.5/820)*100 = 49.45 %

See figure 1

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i believe it is c.) 1575 j.