1) Pretend you have just synthesized a novel, relatively non-polar compound that is solid at room...

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1) Pretend you have just synthesized a novel, relativelynon-polar compound that is solid at room temperature. The lastreaction you performed on route to this compound also formed smallquantities of more polar impurities. You are going to attempt topurify your novel compound by recrystallization. Would you rathertry using ethanol or cyclohexane? Explain why.

2) When is it necessary to use a solvent-pairrecrystallization?

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To remove the polar impurity from a non polar novel compound well have to use a solvent who can dissolve the impurity in it in this case for removing the slightly polar impurity well use the slightly polar    See Answer
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