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Calculate the percent yield of the aldol condensation-dehydration reaction. I did the following Put 0.8 mL aldehyde, 0.2...

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Calculate the percent yield of the aldolcondensation-dehydration reaction.

I did the following

Put 0.8 mL aldehyde, 0.2 mL ketone, 4 mL ethanol, 3 mL of 2Msodium hydroxide in a flask. Then swirled it for 15 min. Then Iadded 6 mL ethanol and 4 mL of 4% acetic acid. I put the solutionon ice and crystals formed. I ended up with 0.305 g of product.Please show me how to calcualte my percent yield for myproduct.

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Only the cross aldol product will result as aldehyde has noalpha H and ketones are less reactive in self aldolcondensationLet us calculate masses of aldehyde and ketone from givenvolumes and densitiesMass    See Answer
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