Reliability And Productiveness Of Anticancer Agent Potassium Trihydrate
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The goal of this experiment was to determine the reliability and productiveness of a procedure for producing the anticancer agent potassium tris(oxalate) ferrate(III) trihydrate salt. To assess both the reliability and productiveness of the method, the purity of the salt and the percent yield of the reaction was calculated. The purity of the salt was measured by gathering the percent weights of each of the salts components and totaling the percentages to view how much of the product was actually the salt. The percent yield was calculated by firstly comparing the theoretical yield to the experimental yield of the reaction for the salt. This experiment is important because it can reveal if the method for the salt production is economically viable, or in other words, do the procedures successfully create the salt without significant loss in materials or fiscal resources.
Experimental…show more content… To analyze the oxalate component of the salt, a 50 mL burette was cleaned by rinsing it with DI water. After the cleaning, the burette was rinsed 2 times with 5 mL portions of 0.1000 N KMnO4 into a disposal beaker. Then about 0.10 g of the prepared salt weighed out using an analytical balance and then dissolved in 20 mL 6M sulfuric acid within a beaker. That solution was then heated to boiling on a hot plate. The hot solution was then titrated with 0.1000 N KMnO4 until the solution assumed a permanent pink tinge. The same procedures were used to conduct a second trial