Question

You are running a rather large scale reaction where you prepare the grignard reagent phenylmagnesium bromide by reacting 190.55 grams of magnesium with 700 ml of bromobenzene. How many moles of grignard reagent would you expect to form? (the density of bromobenzene is 1.495 g/ml, Mg = 24.3 g/mol, bromobenzene=157.01 g/mol)

Answer 1