Assignment:
Q1. Draw the structures of salicylic acid and aspirin. Circle and identify the functional groups present in each compound.
Q2. Sulfuric acid is a catalyst. What does that mean?
Q3. What safety, environmental and economic considerations would be important to a company manufacturing 1 million pounds of aspirin each year by this procedure? Which ones do you think are most important? Why?
Q4. The aspirin synthesized in a home experiment should never be taken home for medicinal use. Why not?
Provide complete and step by step solution for the question and show calculations and use formulas.