A colleague, Ima Hack, has subjected isoprene to catalytic hydrogenation to give isopentane. Hack has inadvertently stopped

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A colleague, Ima Hack, has subjected isoprene to catalytic hydrogenation to give isopentane. Hack has inadvertently stopped the hydrogenation prematurely and wants to know how much unreacted isoprene remains in the sample. The mixture of isoprene and 2-methylbutane (75 mg total) is diluted to one liter with pure methanol and found to have an absorption at 222.5 nm (1 cm path length) of 0.356. Given an extinction coefficient of 10,750 at this wavelength, what mass percent of the sample is unreacted isoprene?

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Organic Chemistry

ISBN: 9781936221349

6th Edition

Authors: Marc Loudon, Jim Parise

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