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Ch.3 - Chemical Reactions and Reaction Stoichiometry

Chapter 3, Problem 107

Viridicatumtoxin B, C30H31NO10, is a natural antibiotic compound. It requires a synthesis of 12 steps in the laboratory. Assuming all steps have equivalent yields of 85%, which is the final percent yield of the total synthesis?

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Hello everyone today. We are being asked to solve the following problem. It says it takes eight steps for an enzyme inhibitor to be synthesized. If each step gives a 67% yield, what is the final percent yield? So this question is actually relatively simple to solve. What we're going to do Is we're going to take that 67% and divide it by 100% to give us 0. Next, we want to take that 0.67 and raise it to the power of eight. Since there are eight steps In doing so, we generate a final% 4.06%. I hope this helped. And until next time.
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