Hi, I am doing an experiment that is called NaBH4 reduction of acetophenone. I am having...

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Hi, I am doing an experiment that is called NaBH4 reduction ofacetophenone. I am having trouble understand the techinque/wordingwhen using a sep funnel. These are some of the proceduresbelow:
1. Pour the mixture into a separatory funnel and add 20 mL ofice water. Rinse the beaker with additional ice water (5 mL) andadd the rinsing to the separatory funnel. Rinise the beaker withether (2 X 15 mL), adding the ether to the separatory funnel.
2. shake mixture, vent, and then remove the ether layer and setaside. Most of the product should be in the ether layer
3. extract the aqueous layer with ether (2 x 25 mL) to removethe remainder of the product. Combine all ether layers in a commonbeaker
(The multiply sign means the number of times you doit)---however can someone explain to me more clearly of that thesteps tell you to do?

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Sodium borohydride is a good reducing agent it is very effective for the reduction of aldehydes and ketones to alcohols the reduction of acetophenone to 1phenylethanol in this after completion of reaction total starting material converted into Product we have to quinch the sodium borohydride reagent with icewater if excess present in the See Answer

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