How do you account for the smell of vinegar when an old bottle of aspirin is opened?
Over time, aspirin (an ester) can be hydrolyzed by H2O that contaminates the container. The hydrolysis products of aspirin are salicylic acid and acetic acid.
Vinegar is made of dilute acetic acid. This hydrolysis product therefore gives the vinegar smell to an old aspirin bottle.
How do you account for the smell of vinegar when an old bottle of aspirin is opened?
2. If you open a bottle of older aspirin you find in the medicine cabinet, it may smell like vinegar. If you tested it with FeCl, it would likely give a purple color. What happened to the aspirin?
3. 0.69g of salicylic acid was reacted with 0.6g acetic anhydride in the presence of concentrated phosphoric acid to yield 0.80g of acetyl salicylic acid (see below). Determine the limiting reagent and percent yield. C-CH OH COOH CH, COOH CHC Salicylic acid MW 138.12. mp 159C Acetic anhydride Acetylsalicylic acid M W 102.09. bp 140CMW 180.15. mp 128-1370 4. How do you account for the smell of vinegar when an old bottle of aspirin opened?
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