For furfural applications, you could either transform it into THF which is a great solvent to have around if you want to do Grignard reactions, or reduce it into furfuryl alcohol if you're into rocket science.
The Claisen adapter is a good tip. Putting the heating mantle and boiling flask on top of a lab jack or similar is also good. This keeps you from needing to figure out how to get the heating mantle out from under it when stuff's popping off.
Liked the clip. I recall that in Freshman Chemistry, going way, way back, it was explained that it was this chemical reaction that made much of Chicago. Boggle, did not anticipate that one. I had thought that Chicago had prospered because it was a significant port on the Great Lakes. Then, later, someone else, a different Prof, claimed that it was 'white metals' (tin-based metal alloys) that made Chicago, Chicago. The point being, I gathered, that Chemistry can be a real money maker. Heck, I already knew that. And now, so do you.
Yeah, chemistry is a very good money maker due to the importance of all the products that can be made. Petroleum products, Fertilizers, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and so much more. Life would be very different without all those.
Fur fur Al. Exactly how it’s spelled. Suffix is pronounced Al like in the name Albert. It denotes that’s there’s an aldehyde group. The suffix -Ol (pronounced: “all”) denotes an alcohol group
For furfural applications, you could either transform it into THF which is a great solvent to have around if you want to do Grignard reactions, or reduce it into furfuryl alcohol if you're into rocket science.
The Claisen adapter is a good tip. Putting the heating mantle and boiling flask on top of a lab jack or similar is also good. This keeps you from needing to figure out how to get the heating mantle out from under it when stuff's popping off.
Thats true, I always forget about lab jacks. Very useful, too bad they are so expensive. lol
Liked the clip. I recall that in Freshman Chemistry, going way, way back, it was explained that it was this chemical reaction that made much of Chicago. Boggle, did not anticipate that one. I had thought that Chicago had prospered because it was a significant port on the Great Lakes. Then, later, someone else, a different Prof, claimed that it was 'white metals' (tin-based metal alloys) that made Chicago, Chicago. The point being, I gathered, that Chemistry can be a real money maker. Heck, I already knew that. And now, so do you.
Yeah, chemistry is a very good money maker due to the importance of all the products that can be made. Petroleum products, Fertilizers, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and so much more. Life would be very different without all those.
You could also make levoglucosenone this way, using H2SO4 as the catalyst.
3:35 This is why low-cut filters are a thing.
I don't think that would fix the problem you are taking about.
@@WheelerScientific Certainly not the best way, but expedient and somewhat effective. Table bumps are rather jarring when heard over headphones.
i like the korn in the intro
Isn't furfural decently toxic?
cool video, shouldn't the title be Organic chemistry: Converting corn cobs to furfural
I'm guessing you work in a research lab, and that's how you have access to NMR and GC-MS?
Yes. lol
Converting corn to cancer. Nice. 👍
I think you should maybe Google what sweet bread is. You'll see that the description of what you're smelling is very confusing.
Sweet Bread and Sweetbread are two different things.
Is it pronounced more like "fear for all" or "fur for all"
Unless you are a furryphobic, then same thing..
Fur fur Al. Exactly how it’s spelled. Suffix is pronounced Al like in the name Albert. It denotes that’s there’s an aldehyde group.
The suffix -Ol (pronounced: “all”) denotes an alcohol group