Synthesis of salicylic acid from wintergreen oil

[@ch1amaka]

WOW, VERY DETAILING, AND EASY TO UNDERSTAND. THANKS PROF.

[@butterflyw2923]

The Lab content you create is AWESOME . thank you so much!

[@adrianoy79]

awesome video!

[@RoxiHulet]

Thanks!

[@fredericdesalpes5824]

Thank you so much , very interesting.... Please : First step of the alkaline hydrolysis : is methanol the second product ? (Water soluble too ) .. Fred / France

[@kinnarijadeja1294]

thank you so much! This was very useful!

[@Blessed_and_Stylish]

🙏🏾 thank you

[@aashiskumardhami]

You are doing great❣

[@belindanona7742]

Wow thankyou for ur detail explanation .. I've been long time looking for this procedure .. but if i wanna make for jasmonate acid from methyl jasmonate with this procedure is it possible?

[@norelhoudachikh6921]

merci beaucoup vous m'avez vraiment aider. Bonne continuation

[@achinguyen3937]

Awesome content

[@petrmasek4506]

Lovely, have to try that someday. Do you have a link to the procedure you are following?

[@RoxiHulet]

I teach from Lehman's text, Operational Organic Chemistry 4th ed.

[@petrmasek4506]

@@RoxiHulet Great! Thanks, and all the best. You've been a lot of help to me during my finals in organic chemistry. Regards from Czechia :))

[@opufy]

"cooking with Roxi"

[@RoxiHulet]

My favorite part of chemistry is the cooking :)

[@omsingharjit]

Is it possible to convert any alcohol like I.p or Ethenol or ketone like Acetone into Proplene or Ethelene Carbonate solvent ?? Diy ?

[@beb1527]

It was so long ago, in Organic Chem lab. We made aspirin. The first step was extracting something from mint and reacting it with something to make salicylic acid. I remember using vinegar (acetic acid), after that at some point. But I'm pretty sure there is another step that I'm missing here - I'm thinking we did another reaction to make acetylsalicylate and then to Aspirin, which is acetylsalicylic acid. I can't find the instructions online. - (edit: you are awesome, i found your video here kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKjaZqppbZZ5iLM and that has my answer)

[@RoxiHulet]

Very cool memory! People usually really enjoy the aspirin synthesis, especially because the wintergreen smells really good. Thanks for sharing your story!

[@NumbGeek]

I often perform hydrolysis like these in a lab I'm working at, the way we do it is by adding the NaOH right after the solution enter reflux, it immediately precipitates out, it's kinda beautiful

[@NumbGeek]

The way we got to this procedure is kinda funny too, a student was performing the hydrolysis, but she forgot to add the NaOH, and the solution was refluxing, then she added the base and everything precipitated, we use the accidental method ever since

[@squigglesmcjr199]

You boil the methyl sali and then add the lye?

[@NumbGeek]

@@squigglesmcjr199 i don't hydrolyze methyl sali, I hydrolyze a molecule we work with in the lab, we add our compound in ethanol, let it reflux then add the NaOH solution

[@sagarbaladash6713]

Sulphuric acid here is concentrated or diluted?

[@RoxiHulet]

I used 3 M.

[@sagarbaladash6713]

Thank you so much ma'am... ♥️

[@magnuswootton6181]

if u put this in glycerine u get wintergreen oil again!!!!!