The purpose of this experiment was to prepare the Diels-Alder adduct of the unknown conjugated diene in “eucalyptus oil”, separate the adduct, and identify the unknown diene from the melting point of its adduct
Experimental Method
Measure 10ml of anhydrous diethyl ether, and 5g eucalyptus oil, 3.61g powdered maleic anhydrous. Then mixed them together, the color turn a neon yellow. Reflux on the steam bath water for 45 minutes with aluminum foil covered the round bottom flask. Transfer the mixture into a small Erlenmerer flask when it warms. Cover the flask with watch glass and let it cool down to room temperature. The mixture of white and yellow crystal was formed when it reached room temperature. The crystals were isolated by vacuum filtration and washed with cold low boiling petroleum ether. The crude crystal were purified by dissolving the adduct in dry methanol and allowing the adduct to recrystallize. The mass of product was 5.56g and the melting point was range from 98-100.5C
Discussion / Conclusion
He melting point The purpose of this experiment was to prepare the Diels-Alder adduct of the unknown conjugated diene in “eucalyptus oil”, separate the adduct, and identify the unknown diene from the melting point of its adductof the adduct proved that the diene in the eucalyptus oil was phellandrene
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Introduction
The purpose of this experiment was to prepare the Diels-Alder adduct of the unknown conjugated diene in “eucalyptus oil”, separate the adduct, and identify the unknown diene from the melting point of its adduct
Experimental Method
Measure 10ml of anhydrous diethyl ether, and 5g eucalyptus oil, 3.61g powdered maleic anhydrous. Then mixed them together, the color turn a neon yellow. Reflux on the steam bath water for 45 minutes with aluminum foil covered the round bottom flask. Transfer the mixture into a small Erlenmerer flask when it warms. Cover the flask with watch glass and let it cool down to room temperature. The mixture of white and yellow crystal was formed when it reached room temperature. The crystals were isolated by vacuum filtration and washed with cold low boiling petroleum ether. The crude crystal were purified by dissolving the adduct in dry
