{"id":234389,"date":"2025-06-14T05:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T05:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=234389"},"modified":"2025-06-14T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T05:23:08","slug":"what-is-the-literature-melting-point-for-benzoic-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/14\/what-is-the-literature-melting-point-for-benzoic-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the literature Melting Point for Benzoic Acid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is the literature Melting Point for Benzoic Acid? The Melting Point for Benzoic Acid is 122 %\u20ac What is the literature Melting Point for Acetanilide? The Melting Point for Acetanilide is 115*C<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-0-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the correct <strong>literature melting points<\/strong> for both compounds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2705 <strong>Benzoic Acid<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Literature Melting Point:<\/strong> <strong>122 \u00b0C<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This value is well-documented in organic chemistry literature and is considered the standard for pure benzoic acid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2705 <strong>Acetanilide<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Literature Melting Point:<\/strong> <strong>114\u2013116 \u00b0C<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most commonly cited value: <strong>114.3 \u00b0C<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your value of <strong>115 \u00b0C<\/strong> falls within the correct range.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong><br>If your measured melting points significantly differ from the literature values, it may indicate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Impurities in the sample (which lower and broaden the melting point).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Calibration issues with the melting point apparatus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Moisture or decomposition in the sample.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner8-396.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-234390\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the literature Melting Point for Benzoic Acid? The Melting Point for Benzoic Acid is 122 %\u20ac What is the literature Melting Point for Acetanilide? The Melting Point for Acetanilide is 115*C The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Here are the correct literature melting points for both compounds: \u2705 Benzoic Acid \u2705 Acetanilide Note:If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}