I'm having some trouble with this question i worked out the actual mass of ethyl ethanoate to be 5.76g, but i dont know how to work out the theoretical.
Ethyl ethanoate has a density of 0.9gcm-3 and immiscible with water
6.00g of ethanoic acid and 6.00g of ethanol are refluxed with a few drops of conc. sulfuric acid. After reflux the mixture is distilled.
The distillate is treated with aqueous sodium carbonate solution and the upper organic layer is seperated from the lower aqueous layer.
Anhydrous calcium chloride is then added to the liquid and the pure liquid is decanted off and distilled.
6.4cm3 of ethyl ethanoate are formed.
Calculate the mass of ethyl ethanoate that could theoretically be formed in the reaction.