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A student heats 5.41 g of anisole with excess concentrated hydrogen iodide…

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A student heats $5.41\ \text{g}$ of anisole with excess concentrated hydrogen iodide. The yield of each product is $90\ \%$ . Use $108.14\ \text{g/mol}$ for anisole, $94.113\ \text{g/mol}$ for phenol and $141.939\ \text{g/mol}$ for iodomethane. Find the mass of phenol and the mass of iodomethane. Then say what a further molecule of HI does to the phenol.

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HI cleaves the C-O bond. Iodide attacks the less crowded carbon (or the tertiary one). An aryl C-O bond stays, so an aryl alkyl ether gives a phenol and an alkyl iodide. Excess HI turns an alkyl ether into two alkyl iodides. The net dipole of two bond dipoles $\mu$ at angle $\theta$ is $2\mu\cos(\theta/2)$ .

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