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Offline RedJy

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Making Aspirin
« on: November 14, 2006, 06:45:25 PM »
I was wondering, if you wanted to make aspirin for a project.  Would you just need to combine 9 parts carbon, 8 parts hydrogen and 4 parts oxygen?  Or is it more complicated than this?

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Re: Making Aspirin
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2006, 06:58:46 PM »
More complicated and easier at the same time. Google aspirin or acetylsalicylic acid synthesis.
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Re: Making Aspirin
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2006, 07:25:46 PM »
agreed, its a fairly simple synthesis but it's much more complicated then combining 9 parts carbon, 8 parts hydrogen and 4 parts oxygen. You might want to look up isomerism to see why.

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