You work in a small-scale manufacturing facility that usesphthalic acid as the starting material for a multi-step synthesis.Your company buys ~98% pure phthalic acid from a major manufacturerand purifies it in-house prior to its use in the multi-stepsynthesis. You are given the job to purify 50 g of the impurephthalic acid by recrystallization from water. Approximately howmuch water will you need to use to prepare the hot saturatedsolution? Upon cooling in an ice-bath, and subsequent filtration,how much pure phthalic acid would you expect to recover?
