CHEM 120.

1 – ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (LABORATORY)

LABORATORY REPORT

Exercise No. 4
Sublimation of Crude Caffeine

I. OBJECTIVES
1. To use sublimation method to purify an organic compound.
2. To determine the percent recovery of the purified caffeine.

Results
Weight of crude caffeine
Weight of empty vial
Weight of vial + purified caffeine = The weight of the vial
Weight of purified caffeine
% Recovery
Inference
For this experiment, we are having the sublimation
= The crude caffeine
method for crude caffeine.
weighed 5.2 grams.
In the experiment the beaker was put in the ice bath
= The empty vial weighed to allow the crystals to be synthesized.
21.7095 grams.
The sublimation purified the caffeine because the
surface of the filter paper causes the temperature of the
and purified caffeine was filter paper to become low, which results the caffeine to
21.7121 grams.
become crystals when it reaches the surface of the filter
paper.
= The weight of the purified
caffeine was 00.0026 The higher the value of the percent recovery, the
grams.
greater the pure caffeine was extracted, therefore in this
0.0026 grams experiment, we came up only 0.05 percent recovery, thus
= x 100
5.2 grams the extract are mostly impurities.
The sublimation does not require any type of solvent
= 0.05 %
and the procedure is especially simple. It only involves
heating that allows the sample to sublime,
thus the sample used in this experiment was caffeine.