Can someone please look over my short paragraph about my organic laboratory experiment for any edits on making it more detailed yet concise at the same time. For example, I'm not sure if I should include that acetonitrile and toluene should be stated that they were insoluble compared to the other three solvents just for claification?
The purpose of this second laboratory experiment was to determine a proper solvent for recrystallization of acetaminophen by using the solubility properties in five different solvents: acetonitrile, methanol, tetrahydrofuran, toluene, and acetone. Acetaminophen was insoluble in toluene at room temperature and at elevated temperatures. On the other hand, the compound was also found to be insoluble in acetonitrile at room temperature but soluble at warm temperatures. This observation led to recrystallization of acetaminophen afterwards, and thus would make acetonitrile a suitable solvent.
Did you try other three solvents listed above as well. What was your observation. Can you add those in the explanation as well.
In short you may write as : Of all the solvents we tested, acetaminophen was found to be slightly soluble in acetonitrile at room temperature with complete solublility at high (boiling) temperature. The compound was found to be insoluble in all the other solvents (methanol, tetrahydrofuran, toluene and acetone) both at room temperature and at higher temperature conditions. This makes acetonitrile a ideal solvent for recrstallization of acetaminophen.
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