You are given 2.00 g of a mixture of phenol, aniline, phthalic acid and methyl benzoate....

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You are given 2.00 g of a mixture of phenol, aniline, phthalicacid and methyl benzoate. Describe, how you would use an acid-baseextraction technique to separate all three compounds by drawing theflowchart. Propose another way of extraction, where different orderof extraction is used (e.g., adding the acid first instead of abase)

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phthalic acid will become salt in mild base like NaHCO3 anddissolves in water After we can acidify with acid solution    See Answer
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