Aspirin Lab Day 1

We started the process of making aspirin by combining 5g of salicylic acid, 7mL of acetic anhydride and 8 drops of concentrated sulfuric acid. Then, it was time to heat the starting materials. We made a hot water bath and boiled for 15 minutes. This is what the hot water bath set up looked like:

When the 15 minutes were up, we allowed the flask to cool for 3 minutes on a hot plate and added 15mL of ice cold water to the flask and swirled it to mix contents then set it up on the lab bench to crystalize over night.