Aspirin lab day 1

Today during class we were supposed to begin the process of making Aspirin in our lab. Unfortunately, my partner and I did not pass the pre-lab quiz and therefore couldn't participate in the lab. For our pre-lab quiz, we were given a sentence directly from the procedure packet, and we had to fill in the blanks. This challenged us to know terms such as water, excess, acetic anhydride, and crystallize to fill these blanks. Because we did not conduct the experiment ourselves, I had to get the data from a friend, and now for the rest of the year I will have to refer to her sample and the calculations she gathers with the sample her and her partner made.

If we were to have conducted the lab today, we would have included the following:
1. Combining in an Erlenmeyer flask, the 5g of salicylic acid with the 7g of acetic anhydride, and then 8 drops of concentrated sulfuric acid to this mix.
2. We would have then heated these materials inside the flask by submerging it into a water bath using a hot plate. We would have left this to heat up for fifteen minutes.
3. The last step for this day would have been to wait for the mixture to cool for three minutes, then add 15mL of ice cold water and stirred to cut down o the exothermic-ness.

Here is the link to access our full procedure we were to conduct in class:
http://www.chem.latech.edu/~deddy/chem104/104Aspirin.htm
Some things we altered about the procedure were to use a hot plate instead of a bunsen burner, and to use ice cold water instead of room temperature in 4B.

This is what the setup of day 1 would have looked like: