Describe and explain the possible effect on your results of the following experimental errors or variations.

(a.) In Part A, you heated the reactants under reflux for 30 minutes in acetic acid rather than propanoic acid.

(b.) You used methanol in place of triphenylmethanol in part B.

(c.) The diethyl ether you used to precipitate tropylium fluoborate was not anhydrous.

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