Your Lab Partner Disobeyed Lab Rules and Poured Table Salt

question 36

Essay

Your lab partner disobeyed lab rules and poured table salt from lunch into your unknown organic white powder,which is aprotic and contains an ester functional group.What solvent might you add to the solid mixture to remove the table salt,leaving the ester? What solvent is appropriate to remove the unknown ester,leaving instead the salt? Explain your reasoning.

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