Question

If I am using 40 mg of maleic anhydride (98.057 g/mol) and 80 mg of anthracene (178.234 g/mol), how would I calculate the theoretical yield in mmol and mg?

Also, how do I use this information to find my percent yield of the product?

Answer 1

Theoretical yield means if your reaction completely successful with your all the starting materials consumed totally,then how much product you have get. In such case you are getting 100% yield.

But in actual practice, you'll get some lower amount of product is obtained. This is actual yield.

% yield = actual yield /theoretical yield. * 100%. But you must put both the yield in same unit(either in mmol or in mg )