Grignard is a reaction that is crucial to forming the new carbon-carbon bond. This is a two-part lab that teaches new techniques; the purpose of this lab is to introduce realistic organic synthesis and apply acid workup to produce triphenylmethanol. A Grignard reaction is characterized by the addition of a magnesium halide (an organomagnesium halide) to an aldehyde or a ketone in order to form a secondary or tertiary alcohol. These reactions are helpful because they serve as a crucial tool in performing important carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions (Arizona State University, 2018). This experiment aimed to observe the mechanisms of a Grignard reply to synthesize triphenylmethanol from benzophenone using phenylmagnesium bromide as the Grignard reagent. …show more content…
In this experiment, the combined reactions are as follows. To start the experiment, the Grignard reagent, phenylmagnesium bromide, was formed by reacting bromobenzene with magnesium while using anhydrous diethyl ether as the solvent. Using anhydrous ether is crucial because if any water is present, the Grignard reagent will react with the water instead, which will ultimately terminate the reaction. Once formed, the Grignard reagent reacted with the benzophenone to form triphenyl magnesium bromide; this served as the Grignard adduct. From there, the Grignard adduct underwent an acid workup using aqueous 6M hydrochloric acid in order to form the product triphenylmethanol. Since water and magnesium bromide chloride was structured as side products after the adduct was hydrolyzed, the product was isolated using two separate extractions: an ether extraction and an aqueous extraction through a separatory funnel. The product was then purified using petroleum ether and recrystallized using boiling isopropyl
Marissa De la Paz 29 October 2015 Landstrom T/R, 8am Experiment 13B: Phenyl Grignard Addition to Benzophenone The objective of this experiment is to first generate a Grignard reagent, then use that to synthesize triphenylmethanol. The Grignard reagent is necessary to create a new C—C bond. The formation of triphenylmethanol is broken down in several steps.
This lab’s end result was to correctly identify each unknown solution using prior knowledge of chemical properties and the results of the first experiment conducted. Unknown solution D was the only colored solution, being blue while the others were clear. This made it easy to then match D up to Copper Sulfate because of its color. As unknown A and B were added together, lots of gaseous bubbles formed and revealed the fact that that reaction was the reaction between Hydrochloric Acid and Sodium Carbonate because it was the only reaction that produced a gas release. Unknown A and C produced the only yellow, brown precipitate just as the reaction between Sodium Carbonate and Silver Nitrate had previously.
In this test, primary halides precipitate the fastest while secondary halides need to be heated in order for a reaction to occur. Comparison of the rates of precipitation of the obtained product to standard 1° and 2° bromide solutions will show whether the product is a primary or secondary
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Regarding reaction 4, the duration was changed to 480 seconds. After the Styrofoam cups were restacked, 100mL HCl was added. The lid was added and the probe was instered. A watch glass was weighed, then weighed again after scooping on 1.0g MgO. After 3-4 readings were recorded, the MgO was added with the spatula, which was stirred constantly with the stir bar. The watch glass was weighed again with the remains of the MgO. Reaction 5 did not use the stock solution.
The purpose of this lab was to perform a Wittig reaction in order to test whether the counter ion in a base used in the reaction directly results in the formation of an E or Z product. Three bases -- LiOH, KOH, and NaOH -- will be reacted with acetonyl triphenylphosphonium chloride (a phosphonium salt). The product of that reaction will be reacted with p-annisaldehyde, and an NMR of each product will be taken and used to determine which isomer of each product is formed. In a Wittig reaction, an aldehyde or ketone is reacted with a ylide produced from an SN2 reaction with a phosphonium salt.
The purpose of this experiment was to learn about metal hydride reduction reactions. Therefore, the sodium borohydride reduction of the ketone, 9-fluorenone was performed to yield the secondary alcohol, 9-fluorenol. Reduction of an organic molecule usually corresponds to decreasing its oxygen content or increasing its hydrogen content. In order to achieve such a chemical change, sodium borohydride (NaBH4) is used as a reducing agent. There are other metal hydrides used in the reduction of carbonyl groups such as lithium aluminum hydride (LiAlH4).
Lab report: How does the surface area affect the rate of reaction ? Introduction The rate of a chemical reaction (or reaction rate) is a calculation of the total time needed for a reaction to take place, or how quickly the reactants are transferred into products in a chemical process. This rate can be measured in two methods. The first one is to measure the rate at which the reactants are used up per unit of time, while the second method is to measure the rate at which the products are formed per unit of time. There are several factors that affect the rate of a reaction.
The purpose of this lab was to provide a more visible representation of reaction kinetics through dye decomposition with differing concentrations of reactants and the addition of ions within the solution. On day one of the lab, a linear relationship between absorbance and concentration of the dye was determined by creating multiple samples of dye with differing concentrations and measuring their absorbance in a spectrophotometer. On lab day two, using a similar method from day one, the absorbance of different reactions was analyzed and the rate order of both the dye and NaOH were determined to be 1 through graphical data analysis. Additional ions were introduced as a part of the experiment and the effect of the addition of KNO3 slowed down
Step I: Preparation of benzopinacol from benzophenone : Coupling reaction Reaction: Procedure: 1. Take a mixture of 1.5 g of benzophenone , one drop of glacial acetic
Synthesis of Triphenylmethanol Using the Grignard Reaction and Acid Workup Amanda Sokol Partner: Jack Platacz TA: Edgar Reyes Cruz Lab: Tuesday, 1:40 - 4:30 PM PSH 334 March 17, 2023 Abstract: The purpose of this experiment was to synthesize pure triphenylmethanol by preparing and performing the Grignard reaction followed by an acid workup step. The two-week process combined various techniques used in lab this semester thus far with some new techniques; the first week involved making the Grignard reagent and its reaction with Benzophenone, while the second week consisted of hydrolysis as well as extraction and purification of the product through recrystallization. The solid product was also characterized through melting point and infrared spectroscopy.
This has led to the recent disclosure of several improved reaction protocols for the synthesis of DHPMs, either by modification of the classical one-pot Biginelli approach itself or by the development of novel, but more complex multistep strategies. 3.3.2. Alternative multistep
Introduction When a chemical reaction occurs anywhere in the universe, it needs energy. The human body is no exception. For some reactions, the energy required to start the reaction is Enzymes are special proteins designed to assist in the breaking down of macromolecules. They do so by holding the macromolecule in place at the active site, therefore lowering the amount of energy it takes to start the chemical reaction. There are different enzymes for each macromolecule; Pectinase and Cellulase are both examples of enzymes, and were the enzymes tested in this lab.
This allowed them to see the reaction in real time, with the help of X-ray crystallography. Due to this new technique, they observed additional transitional states previously unexplored as well as suggesting a third magnesium ion is involved in the reaction. They believed and proved, that by using their technique, intermediate states
If carbocations rearrange during the intermediate phase, the product obtained will be a partial racemic mixture, where the maximum amount of product reflects the most stable carbocation intermediate thru rearrangement. Due to the relative stability of the carbocation, only tertiary alkyl halides can perform SN1 reactions, as shown below. Primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols can react through substitution but only with hydrobromic acid (HBr), hydrochloric acid (HCl) and hydroiodic acid (HI) because they are good nucleophiles (electron rich atoms). Based on the experiment’s chemical equation: 2-methylcyclohexanol 1-bromo-1-methylcyclohexanol 1-bromo-2-methylcyclohexanol (3o alkyl halide) (2o alkyl halide) The goal of the experiment was to alter a secondary alcohol to isomeric alkyl halides through SN1 dehydration synthesis with hydrobromic acid.