Hydriodic acid, HI(aq), is a strong acid that is an aqeous solution of hydrogen iodide. In the laboratory, hydriodic acid can be prepared by the method below. A mixture of 480g of iodine and 600 cm3 of water was put into a flask. the mixture was stirred and hydrogen sulfide gas, H2S(g), was bubbled through for several hours. The mixture become yellow as sulfur separated out. The sulfur was filtered off and the solution was purified by fractional distillation. A fraction was collected containing 440g of HI in a total volume of 750 cm3. Determine the percentage yield of hydriodic acid.
This is what the mark scheme says, which I can not understand at all:
amount of I2 reacted = 1.89 mol
Therefore amount of HI formed = 3.44
Theoretical amount of HI produced = 3.78 mol
% yield =3.44 × 100/3.78= 91.0%
This is what I did:
mol of I2: n= m/M = 480/253.8 = 1.89
mol of HI: n/ m/M = 440/127.9 = 3.44
1.89/3.44 x 100 = 55%
I think I understand where I went wrong, this is what I should've done (can someone please check?):
mol of I2: n= m/M = 480/253.8 = 1.89
mol of HI: n= m/M = 440/(2 x 127.9) = 1.72
1.72/1.89 x 100 = 91%