Step-by-step explanation:
-Filter help — delete some big unreacted, undesirable species (norit is probably from what you are sorting through, its only carbon which cleans up things)
— extract with DCM because you are probably in an aqueous phase, and some butanoate is in it
- Anhydrous sodium absorbs excess of water (dries the material)
-evaporation in the hood to clear the DCM and crystallize the product.