#DETERMINATION OF PARTITION COEFFICIENT OF BENZOICACID ACID BETWEEN OIL AND WATER
Aim : To determine the partition coefficient of benzoic acid between oil and water. Apparatus: Separating funnel, burette, pipette, conical flask, Beaker. Chemicals used: 0.1N NaOH solution, potassium hydrogen phthalate, benzoic acid, peanut (or) arachis oil, water, phenolphthalein indicator. Theory: Nernst distribution law states that when added substance is insufficient to saturate immiscible liquids the solute distributes between liquids. In such a way that at equilibrium the ratio of concentration of the solute on the two liquids is constant at constant temperature partition coefficient may be defined as the ratio of solute in organic phase to that of aqueous phase.IfC 0 and are C W equilibrium concentration of substance in organic phase and aqueous phase respectively then the expression of K d = C 0 /C W Where the equilibrium constant k d is called partition coefficient This equation a