Question

dentify the reaction or process used to manufacture a commercially made compound. It could be the pharmaceutical or vitamin you previously posted about, or a pesticide, herbicide, or active cleaning agent.  It could even be a solvent used and sold commercially.  What we are focusing on for this discussion is the reaction. Don’t forget to include a minimum of 1 APA formatted reference and approximately 250 words to discuss and describe your reaction.

Answer 1

Aspirin is used as blood thinner. It reduced the risk of heart attack by reducing the viscosity of blood. That is why it is also called as blood thinner.

Aspirin is obtained from oil of winter green. Aspirin is also known as acetyl salicyclic acid. This is a two step process using oil of wintergreen as the starting material.( John A. OlmstedIII, synthesis of aspirin : a general chemistry experiment" J. Chem. Educ., 1998, 75 (10), p 1261) T The hydrolysis involves conversion of oil of wintergreen to salicyclic acid.

the phenolic hydroxyl group, which is also acidic, would be ionized and exist as the sodium salt during the basic hydrolysis. the phenolic -OH, as well as the carboxylic acid group, will be protonated during the acidification step following the addition of the sulfuric acid.

The reaction sequecne is shown below

The focus of this experiment is to understand how various reactions learned can be used to produce industrial products of interest. Also the analyssis of this product using sophisticated instruments can also be explained.