Question

The recrystallizaiton of benzoin and vanillin are two different procedures. Explain what happens at the molecular level for each one. Next, explain the difference in the recrystallization procedures used depending on the compound to e purified and the nature of the contaminants.

Answer 1

Explanation:

There are five major steps in the recrystallization process: dissolving the solute in the solvent, performing a gravity filtration, if necessary, obtaining crystals of the solute, collecting the solute crystals by vacuum filtration, and, finally, drying the resulting crystals.