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What are the consequences of purposely having an excess of one of the reactants?

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When one reactant is in excess, there will always be some left over. The other reactant becomes a limiting factor and controls how much of each product is produced. While using excess reactants can help to increase percentage yields, this is at the expense of atom economy.

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