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Natural Sources for S-(-)-Limonene?
I'm interested in developing an undergrad organic lab that delves deeper into distillation/extraction, optical rotation and enantiomers. Our lab currently does a steam distillation extracting R-(+)-...
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How can an inexperienced chemist determine the chemical structure of a molecule?
I'm a fairly inexperienced, but nonetheless interested chemist, currently planning a small project for the coming summer: I want to isolate an unknown chemical from a plant and determine it's chemical ...
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67 failures at extracting acetaminophen from Excedrin(R)
I have adapted the lab experiment described in this J. Chem. Ed. article for the organic chemistry lab course I teach. In the past year, the first year of implementation, I have had 67 failures (100% ...
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