ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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Chapter 14, Problem 14.35SP
(A true story.) An inexperienced graduate student moved into a laboratory and began work. He needed some diethyl ether for a reaction, so he opened an old, rusty 1-gallon can marked “ethyl ether” and found there was half a gallon left. To purify the ether, the student set up a distillation apparatus, started a careful distillation, and went to the stockroom for the other reagents he needed. While he was at the stockroom, the student heard a muffled “boom.” He quickly returned to his lab to find a worker from another laboratory putting out a fire. Most of the distillation apparatus was embedded in the ceiling.
- a. Explain what probably happened.
- b. Explain how this near-disaster might have been prevented.
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Chapter 14 Solutions
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Ch. 14.2C - Rank the given solvents in decreasing order of...Ch. 14.2D - Prob. 14.2PCh. 14.2D - In the presence of 18-crown-6, potassium...Ch. 14.3B - Give a common name (when possible) and a...Ch. 14.3C - Prob. 14.5PCh. 14.3C - Name the following heterocyclic ethers.Ch. 14.4 - Propose a fragmentation to account for each...Ch. 14.5 - Prob. 14.8PCh. 14.5 - Prob. 14.9PCh. 14.6 - Prob. 14.10P
Ch. 14.7 - Explain why bimolecular condensation is a poor...Ch. 14.7 - Prob. 14.12PCh. 14.7 - Prob. 14.13PCh. 14.8 - Prob. 14.14PCh. 14.8 - Prob. 14.15PCh. 14.8 - Prob. 14.16PCh. 14.10A - Prob. 14.17PCh. 14.10A - Prob. 14.18PCh. 14.10B - Prob. 14.19PCh. 14.11B - Show how you would accomplish the following...Ch. 14.11B - Prob. 14.21PCh. 14.12 - Prob. 14.22PCh. 14.12 - Prob. 14.23PCh. 14.12 - Prob. 14.24PCh. 14.13 - Prob. 14.25PCh. 14.13 - Prob. 14.26PCh. 14.14 - Prob. 14.27PCh. 14.15 - Give the expected products of the following...Ch. 14 - Write structural formulas for the following...Ch. 14 - Give common names for the following compounds. a....Ch. 14 - Give IUPAC names for the following compounds. a....Ch. 14 - Glycerol (propane-1,2,3-triol) is a viscous syrup...Ch. 14 - Prob. 14.33SPCh. 14 - Show how you would make the following ethers,...Ch. 14 - (A true story.) An inexperienced graduate student...Ch. 14 - Prob. 14.36SPCh. 14 - a. Show how you would synthesize the pure (R)...Ch. 14 - a. Predict the values of m/z and the structures of...Ch. 14 - The following reaction resembles the...Ch. 14 - Prob. 14.40SPCh. 14 - Prob. 14.41SPCh. 14 - Prob. 14.42SPCh. 14 - Give the structures of the intermediates...Ch. 14 - Prob. 14.44SPCh. 14 - Show how you would synthesize the following ethers...Ch. 14 - Prob. 14.46SPCh. 14 - Prob. 14.47SPCh. 14 - Prob. 14.48SPCh. 14 - An acid-catalyzed reaction was carried out using...Ch. 14 - Propylene oxide is a chiral molecule. Hydrolysis...Ch. 14 - Prob. 14.51SPCh. 14 - Prob. 14.52SPCh. 14 - Prob. 14.53SPCh. 14 - Prob. 14.54SPCh. 14 - In 2012, a group led by Professor Masayuki Satake...
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