2016-11-12
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Hey guys, today we will be going over the second step in the quest to acetaminophen. In the previous video I extracted ASA from aspirin pills and now it is time to hydrolyze it to salicylic acid. This will be done by a simple acid-catalyzed ester hydrolysis. The next step in this process is the decarboxylation to phenol.
Link to UnintentionalChaos procedure: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=31818#pid338891
Link to download the random music I made: https://soundcloud.com/user-628235621/crystal-voices
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