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James C. McKenna

Professor of Chemistry

Oklahoma City Community College

Organic Chemistry: the study of the compounds that contain carbon.

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Organic Chemistry I (CHEM 2115) and labs.
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Organic Chemistry II (CHEM 2125)and labs.
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James McKenna, Professor of Chemistry, OKCCC

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Synthesis of Aspirin

The major non-prescription painkillers (analgesics) are relatively simple derivatives of benzene. The structure of the four most widely used non-prescription painkillers are shown below.

Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is, by far, the most widely used painkiller. Aspirin was developed in 1895 by Felix Hofmann, working for the Bayer Company. In an organic laboratory you will synthesize aspirin from salicylic acid and acetic anhydride. The structure of the reactants is shown below.

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Other Chemistry Websites:

A site to look up chemistry websites.

>A website for the periodic table.

A website with a huge amount of material on, for example, spectroscopy problems at Combined Spectroscopy Problem On-Line/under Spectroscopy.

Utexas is doing interesting work with texaphyrins.

The chemistry webpage for Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

The NMR spectra of  ¹H &  ¹³Carbon.

Source for spectra.