Answer to Question #153425 in Organic Chemistry for jiaxin duan

Question

You are a chemical engineer that is responsible for synthesizing a new drug. You look at a series of potential chemical reactions that will make your drug along with their respective K values. What type of K value would you be looking for and why?

Answer 1

As a chemical engineer, I will be looking for the chemical reaction for which the value of K is large.

This is because K is a determinant of production. The higher the value of K the greater the efficiency and yield in the drug production.

The sole aim will be to maximize the yield of drug and it can be theoretically predicted from the value of K, and for this reason I will choose that reaction that has a large K value.