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Atom economy - THEORETICAL Measure of how much of your reactants end up in your product Have to include your stoiciometric

ric ratios You will always want the organic product

Molar mass of what you want Total molar mass of reactants

x 100

Percentage yield - PRACTICAL Measure of how efficient your reaction is eg how much you have lost through filter paper

Number of moles of your actual product (what you got) Number of moles of theoretical product (what you thought you would get)

x 100

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