Homework Help: OChem

Posted by Katherine on Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 4:30am.

Confused! Please help!!

Assume an organic compound has a partition coefficient between water and diethyl ether equal to 6.63. If there are initially 9.05 grams of the compound dissolved in 80.0 mL of water, how many grams will remain in the aqueous layer after extraction with one 30.0 mL portion of ether?

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