Question 29.SE.1: Describe a way of separating benzoic acid from benzyl alcoho...
Describe a way of separating benzoic acid from benzyl alcohol.
Analyze We are asked how to separate an alcohol from a carboxylic acid containing a similar structure.
Plan The carboxylic acid and alcohol functional group have a different reactivity and so can be separated using chemical reactions.
Solve In this case, we can use the differences in acidity between the two compounds and the aqueous solubility of the benzoate anion to separate them.
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