Patreon Preview - p-Toluenesulfonic acid
Added 2019-08-08 06:09:39 +0000 UTCFinally after two months another video for your consideration. Let me know if you want any changes or additions.
Should i include an explanation for why the sulfonate group goes to the para-position of the toluene molecule? I felt that would be too much high level theory for a general youtube audience. (Heck, half of university chemists don't get it either)
Anyway, i hope to have a couple more videos ready this month to partially make up for the lack of videos this year. I want to get ammonia production next, and maybe nitric acid.
Comments
5:11 since you used an excess of toluene, I suspect you may have formed some di(p-tolyl)sulfone. Also, at 6:22, how about simply using a thermometer to measure the boiling point? Surely it must go up as the water content diminishes? And yeah, I too approve of getting an explanation regarding the para preference of this reaction. It's an interesting bit of organic chemistry.
Gabriel J.
2019-08-09 13:58:11 +0000 UTCYou mentioned that using straight h2so4 in reactions can cause side products. Why/how does this product avoid oxidation?
Sean Walton
2019-08-09 12:54:52 +0000 UTC
