Cool! I usually see this done on a lot smaller scale. If you want something fun to do with camphor, try oxidizing it to camphoric acid, or forming the oxime.
From the videos of yours I’ve watched, I have determined that your favorite solvent is MTBE. And you’re not the only lazy person around, as I use a magnetic stir bar to scramble my eggs!
Very good video!! You could've used another method for reduction tho, like Meerwein-P-V reduction of ketones. Its cleaner and you had excess of ketone. BTW loved the smell test xDD
do you know of the camphors origin? drawn on it are two of its isomers, altho the synthethic stuff imo vastly differs from the natural stuff, would be interrested in isolating the different isomers of the acetate ester and comparing it
@@THYZOID ah very interresting, i got some of the biological (+)camphor, when something gets around ill include a sample of the borneol and camphor plus some ester so you can compare :P might have to buy some +- and isolate the - to really find out i guess hehe what i also found out is the esterification, did it three times, and ended up with different intensity of the smells each time (somehow)
@@THYZOID I work with methanol at home as a solvent, I always use appropriate safety gear and protocols and I'm well aware of the toxic and highly flammable nature of methanol and I never mix it with other chemicals not even with water. I keep safety data sheets (SDS sheets, formerly known as material safety data sheets or MSDS) not only for the methanol but also for every single chemical I have at home and work with, including SDS sheets for common household chemicals. I don't work with anything too dangerous, especially not extremely hazardous chemicals like cyanides, concentrated hydrofluoric acid, and highly unstable chemicals or highly toxic chemicals or otherwise extremely hazardous chemicals. I'm curious, just how toxic is methanol ? I treat the methanol with a lot of caution
@@craigpater6278 I´m now sure you stay safe when doing chemistry no need to tell me I don´t care what you do at home as long as you are responsible. Regarding the toxicity of MeOH just look up the LD50 or papers specifically about the toxicity of methanol. It isn´t that bad but should still be handled carefully and in a well ventilated area
@@THYZOID in addition to handling the methanol in a well ventilated area I always use a respirator and generally always wear a respirator for chemicals that are likely to give off fumes. The reason I tell or ask you about things like this is because you have a lot more experience in chemistry and I always like to learn new things in chemistry. Also, I like learning about the detailed science behind some of the dangerous chemistry experiments that are featured on your RU-vid channel because it's much safer for an amateur chemist like me to learn about the details of dangerous chemistry experiments from an experienced chemist like you who has the necessary knowledge, experience, safety equipment and safety precautions to safely conduct dangerous experiments, and I also enjoy watching your RU-vid chemistry videos because I find them very interesting.
I cant see any difference in the structures of the reaction scheme between isoborneol and borneol A nice project would be to seperate the racemic camphor by an selective reduction
@@THYZOID Ammonia borane (AB) has been synthesized in very high purity (>99%) from sodium borohydride and ammonium sulfate under ambient conditions in tetrahydrofuran (THF) at 1 M concentration using water as the promoter. Less than quantitative yields of AB are obtained due to a competing hydrolysis of the primary metathesis product ammonium borohydride. The solvent THF can be substituted with a greener alternative, 2-methylTHF, with no loss in yield or purity and complete recyclability.
That's not going to be simple. Camphor has three methyl groups that you can't just easily remove - norbornane/-ene doesn't have them. You can synthesise it from norcamphor, but norbornene is cheaper than that, so you typically do it the other way around: Buy norbornene and make norcamphor from that.
@@alacrity7591 I see. I don't know as much as I'd like to know about chemistry yet, as I haven't gotten a degree in that field yet. I do know enough that I can follow what's going on in chemistry videos such as this one, though.
@@THYZOID Isoborneol reportedly works better than t-butanol as the catalyst, as isoborneol and potassium isoborneoxide both stay dissolved at those temperatures (t-butanol loves to boil off, while t-butoxide may actually solidify), and also it seems to run such reactions faster.
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