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Percent Yield
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1. Define the following terms: yield, theoretical yield,
actual yield, percentage yield.
2. Based on your reading, give 4 reasons why the
actual yield in a chemical reaction often falls short
of the theoretical yield.
3. Read the sample problem on the next slide and
try the practice problem on slide number 5
4. When 5.00 g of KClO3 is heated it decomposes
according to the equation: 2KClO3 2KCl + 3O2
a) Calculate the theoretical yield of oxygen.
b) Give the % yield if 1.78 g of O2 is produced.
c) How much O2 would be produced if the
percentage yield was 78.5%?
1) Answers
Yield: the amount of product
Theoretical yield: the amount of product we
expect, based on stoichiometric calculations
Actual yield: amount of product from a procedure
or experiment (this is given in the question)
Percent yield: actual yield
x 100%
2) theoretical yield
• Not all product is recovered (e.g. spattering)
• Reactant impurities (e.g. weigh out 100 g of
chemical which has 20 g of junk)
• A side reaction occurs (e.g. MgO vs. Mg3N2)
• The reaction does not go to completion
Sample problem
Q - What is the % yield of H2O if 138 g H2O is
produced from 16 g H2 and excess O2?
Step 1: write the balanced chemical equation
2H2 + O2 2H2O
Step 2: determine actual and theoretical yield.
Actual is given, theoretical is calculated:
# g H2O= 16 g H2 x 1 mol H 2 x 2 mol H 2O x 18.02 g H 2O= 143 g
2.02 g H2 2 mol H2 1 mol H2O
Step 3: Calculate % yield
% yield = actual = 138 g H2O =
x 100% x 100% 96.7%
theoretical 143 g H2O
Practice problem
Q - What is the % yield of NH3 if 40.5 g NH3 is
produced from 20.0 mol H2 and excess N2?
Step 1: write the balanced chemical equation
N2 + 3H2 2NH3
Step 2: determine actual and theoretical yield.
Actual is given, theoretical is calculated:
# g NH3= 20.0 mol H2 x 2 mol NH 3 x 17.04 g NH 3 =
227 g
3 mol H2 1 mol NH3
Step 3: Calculate % yield
% yield = actual = 40.5 g NH3
x 100% x 100% = 17.8%
theoretical 227 g NH3
4) 2KClO3 2KCl + 3O2
Answers
a)
b)
% yield = actual = x g O2
x 100% x 100% = 78.5%
theoretical 1.958 g O2
x g O2 = 78.5% x 1.958 g O2 = 1.537 g O2
100%
Challenging question
2H2 + O2 2H2O
What is the % yield of H2O if 58 g H2O are
produced by combining 60 g O2 and 7.0 g H2?
Hint: determine limiting reagent first