Given the amount of camphor (200mg) we are using in this experiment, please determine how many mg of sodium borohydride to use in this reaction. We would like you to use 5.2 molar equivalents of this reagent. This means 5.2 times the mmol of camphor we are using. As an example: for 110.0 mg of camphor,142 mg of NaBH4 would be used (see if you can confirm this result). For complete credit, your work needs to be clearly drawn out!

Explanation:

From the given information:

Camphor may be reduced as readily in the presence of sodium borohydride(NaHB4). The resulting compound which is stereoselective requires 1 mole of sodium borohydride (NaHB4) to reduce 1 mole of camphor in this reaction. The reaction is shown below.

Through the reduction process of camphor, the reducing agent can reach the carbonyl face with a one-carbon linkage. The product stereoisomer is known as borneol.

If the molecular weight of camphor = 152.24 g/mol

and it mass = 200 mg

The its no of moles = 200 mg/ 152.24 g/mol

= 1.3137 mmol

Now the amount of the required mmol for NaBH4 to be consumed in the reaction = 5.2 × 1.3137 mmol

= 6.831 mmol

since the molar mass of NaBH4 = 37.83 g/mol

Then, using the same formula:

No of moles = mass/molar mass

mass = No of moles × molar mass

mass = 6.831 mmol × 37.83 g/mol

mass of NaBH4 used = 258.42 mg  

thats how its supposed to be