You have a mixture of p-nitrobenzaldehyde (vapor pressure 0.01 at its melting point of 106˚) and camphor. Explain how you would separate these two compounds by sublimation. How would you perform the sublimation if benzoic acid instead of camphor is used?
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Subject the mixture of p-nitrobenzaldehyde and camphor to atmospheric sublimation; the camphor will sublime onto the tube filled with ice while the p-nitrobenzaldehyde remains in the flask itself. If benzoic acid is used, the mixture could be separated similarly using vacuum sublimation.
3 Which of the following compounds would be likely to evaporate readily? Explain your answer.
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Only (b) and (c). Fenchone will evaporate readily because it is spherically shaped. Pentacene will evaporate becaue it is cylindricaly shaped. Hexadecane has a zig-zag shape and strong van der Waal attractions.