Materials

Hexane
Ethanol
Iodine Tetramethylammonia

Instruments

Rod
ring
Stir
50mL Beaker
Cylinder
Dro
pp
er

Filter Paper

Fume hood
Hot Pla
te
Funnel Vacuum

Watch Glass

Ice Bath
Spact
ular

Weighing paper
flowchart Add 0.6g of iodine and 12mL of
ethanol.
Add 0.5 gram
tetramethylammonium iodide and
use a string rod to break clumps.

Heat the beaker on the hot plate and

Heat at low temperature stirring it along heating for 10 minutes
until tetramethylammonium iodide has
dissolved.

Put it out of hot plate and let it cool

without disturbing. Disturbing it can This is the period when crystal
cause crystal to be small and become starts to form
impurity

Using the vacuum filtration to Place the solution at room

collect the crystals and watch temperature. It will slowly form
them twice with hexanes. crystals. (Can use ice for quicker).
Prepare instrument for filtration

Send the product that included

Dry and weigh the product. your name, name of compound
and date.
Results and Discussion
- Physical properties
For our product, the change of the physical property of tetramethylammonia
triiodide is occur in colors and shape. The result colors are dark purple with some green
spot on it and for the shape, it is a rod shape which resembles like the tiny snow flakes.

- Chemical properties
+ - +-
Balance Equation: Me4N I + I2 > Me4N I3
Theoretical Yield: 1.075 g. Me4N+I -3
Actual Yield: 0.82g. Me4N+I -3
Reaction Yield: 76.28%

- Error in the results

In theory, the result suppose to contain only dark color and rod shape, but in our
result there are some green spot mixing inside it. This may come the time that filter it in
the vacuum and did not completely wash it with hexane. This might result in some parts
that is impurity. Also, the time that we place it in the fume hood. It is hard to control
every condition in the fume hood and it is easier to get contaminated from other
substance. Other substance might get split into the our crystal that is left to dry over
night. All of these factors makes the result not accurate as the theoretical one. Moreover,
our reaction yields is about only seventy seven percents. This can also come from the
time that we wash beaker with hexane and do not get all substance to filter. Some of it is
left on beaker. Also, we might not totally stir mixture which makes it clump together.
Conclusion
In conclusion, we found out that when Tetramethylammonium reacting with
iodide at certain temperature would result in crystal formation. While crystal should be
in dark purple rod, our products contains some green spots that shows sign of
contamination and impurity. These might be because of some errors during the
experiment, for instance, we might not wash the crystal with hexane enough and some
ethanol still present on the surface face of the crystal or we might not stir the solution
completely before wash it with hexane in the funnel vacuum.

For our calculation, Me4N+I- has 2.45 x 10-3 mole Me4N+I-3 and for I2 it has 2.364 x
10-3 mole I2 . So, the limiting reagent is I2 . The Theoretical Yield of our experiment
is 1.075g. Me4N+I-3 and the Actual Yield is 0.82g. Me4N+I-3 . After we calculated, the
Reaction Yield is 76.28% which means that we had some error. This can be including
as iodine not actually melt during one the hot plate which might led to green spot.

For the further experiment, we would do experiments on other substances in

order to see and learn about more reactions occurred. For instance, we might choose
sugar to further observe about crystallisation. Nevertheless, we have gained lots of
new knowledge on scientific field as well as new skills for life. We have discovered
how crystallisation occur and how two substances react together. We also have learnt
to be more descriptive and precise to minimise mistakes that would happen in our daily
activities.
Appendix
Appendix
Title : Weigh of each substance including filter paper

Filter Tetramethylammo- Iodine Product

paper nioum triiodine including
paper
Weight (gram) 0.58 g 0.50 g 0.60 g 1.40 g