How To Make Furfural from a Corn Cob

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ธ.ค. 2024

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  • @strade601
    @strade601 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

  • @davidfetter
    @davidfetter 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

    • @WheelerScientific
      @WheelerScientific  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thats true, I always forget about lab jacks. Very useful, too bad they are so expensive. lol

  • @jimparsons6803
    @jimparsons6803 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

    • @WheelerScientific
      @WheelerScientific  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @douro20
    @douro20 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You could also make levoglucosenone this way, using H2SO4 as the catalyst.

  • @interstellarsurfer
    @interstellarsurfer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    3:35 This is why low-cut filters are a thing.

    • @WheelerScientific
      @WheelerScientific  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't think that would fix the problem you are taking about.

    • @interstellarsurfer
      @interstellarsurfer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@WheelerScientific Certainly not the best way, but expedient and somewhat effective. Table bumps are rather jarring when heard over headphones.

  • @mistercornell4755
    @mistercornell4755 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i like the korn in the intro

  • @SavinjaLabs
    @SavinjaLabs 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Isn't furfural decently toxic?

  • @ConnorRoss
    @ConnorRoss 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    cool video, shouldn't the title be Organic chemistry: Converting corn cobs to furfural

  • @douro20
    @douro20 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm guessing you work in a research lab, and that's how you have access to NMR and GC-MS?

  • @interstellarsurfer
    @interstellarsurfer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Converting corn to cancer. Nice. 👍

  • @henryisnotafraid
    @henryisnotafraid 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think you should maybe Google what sweet bread is. You'll see that the description of what you're smelling is very confusing.

    • @WheelerScientific
      @WheelerScientific  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Sweet Bread and Sweetbread are two different things.

  • @petevenuti7355
    @petevenuti7355 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Is it pronounced more like "fear for all" or "fur for all"
    Unless you are a furryphobic, then same thing..

    • @kevinmarrs3372
      @kevinmarrs3372 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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