What is Atom Economy
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What's often measured by the percentage yield?
The efficiency of a reaction
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How does the atom economy tell you how wasteful the process is?
It's based on how much of the product is lost because of things like reactions not completing or losses during collection and purification.
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What doesn't percentage yield measure?
How wasteful the reaction itself is
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How can a reaction that has a 100% yield could still be very wasteful?
If a lot of the atoms from the reactants wind up in by-products rather than the desired product.
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What is atom economy?
A measure of the proportion of reactant atoms that become part of the desired product in the balanced chemical equation
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