Formal Report no. 1 Synthesis of Aspirin Chemical Principles Aspirin is most widely sold over-the-counter drug. It has the ability to reduce fever (an antipyretic)‚ to reduce pain (an analgesic)‚ and to reduce swelling‚ soreness‚ and redness (an anti-inflammatory agent). Much of this is believed to be due to decreased production of prostaglandins and thromboxanes. Aspirin’s ability to suppress the production of prostaglandins and thromboxanes is due to its irreversible inactivation of the cyclooxygenase (COX)
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living creatures‚ work together in a certain process that is crucial to existence: the formation of proteins. Although all species differ from each other in various ways‚ the processes by which proteins are synthesized are the same in all. Protein synthesis is a very complex process. In order to understand the process‚ there some basics that are essential for cells to create the proper proteins. DNA is a very long and double-stranded molecule that contains coding‚ through four nitrogen bases (adenine
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2.2 Application of Cu2O nanopowder 2.2.1 Photocatalyst 2.2.2 Solar energy conversion 2.3 Powder formation 2.4 Gas phase 2.4.1 Inert Gas Condensation (IGC) or Gas Phase Condensation 2.4.2 Chemical Vapor Deposition 2.4.3 Laser ablation 2.4.4 Flame synthesis 2.5 Liquid phase 2.5.1 Solvent evaporation method 6 6 7 7 8 9 9 11 11 11 12 12 13 Page ii iii vii viii xii xiii 1 2 3 4 5 pdfMachine iii Is a pdf writer that produces quality PDF files with ease! Produce quality PDF files in seconds and preserve
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Sarah Khan Bivins-5th April 20th‚ 2013 Protein Synthesis Every day‚ you take in an abundance of different biomolecules; one of them being proteins. Have you ever wondered how proteins are made? They don’t just grow from a tree or fall from the sky‚ they are made through a process called protein synthesis. Protein synthesis is broken up in two two steps: transcription and translation. Transcription starts inside the nucleus when the DNA is unzipped by helicase. Following that‚ the mRNA nucleotides
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CHEM3412 Synthesis of a Porphyrin Porphyrins are hetereonuclear‚ macrocyclic compounds that play an important role in living organisms. Examples include the non-protein heme portion of hemoglobin in animals whereby the lone pairs on nitrogen can bind to the oxygen-carrying iron. In plants‚ chlorophyll uses the vast conjugation to allow absorption of light for photosynthesis. The characteristic colors of porphyrins is also due to the conjugation. An examination of the porphyrin structure
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Identifying sites of protein synthesis in Chlamydomonas using erythromycin and cyclohexamide as protein synthesis inhibitors. October 16‚ 2009 Introduction: In living cells‚ prokaryotic or eukaryotic‚ the synthesis (construction) of proteins is accomplished by similar machinery. Amino acids‚ ribosomes‚ messenger RNA (mRNA)‚ and transfer RNA (tRNA)‚ are all necessary for the building of functional proteins in a cell. Ribosomes are the site of protein synthesis in a cell‚ and there are two
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Lab 1: Synthesis of Aspirin Introduction: The purpose of this lab was to demonstrate the ability to easily alter the molecular structure of a compound to greatly increase its utility. In this case‚ an acetyl group was added to salicylic acid‚ a naturally occurring compound with significant pharmaceutical value. Without the addition of the acetyl group‚ salicylic acid is an irritant to the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract. Once the acetyl group is added via a simple reaction‚ acetylsalicylic
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Iodine can also be added to the reaction. The iodine lies on the magnesium and acts a catalyst to help initiate the reaction. Scheme 1. Formation of the Grignard reagent. The entire formation of the Grignard reagent takes place in diethyl ether. Diethyl ether prevents oxygen and carbon dioxide from reacting with
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Synthesis of Aspirin Name: Xuanyi Li Teaching assistant: Deirdre Zwilling November 15‚ 2009 Purpose: To synthesize aspirin‚ a common analgesic drug‚ via nucleophilic acid-catalyzed substitution reaction of salicyclic acid with acetic anhydride. The whole reaction is catalyzed by phosphoric acid. (The experiment involved three parts: The synthesis of aspirin‚ the isolation and purification of aspirin‚ and the estimation of the purity of the final product.) [pic] Procedure[1]: A mixture
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The first synthetic sweetener‚ saccharin‚ was discovered five years prior to Dulcin. The discovery of Dulcin occurred in 1883. Approximately seven years after it’s discovery‚ J.D. Reidel‚ of Berlin‚ was able to synthesis Dulcin at a reasonable cost. Once it became possible to synthesis at a reasonable cost‚ mass production of the sweetener began. Dulcin was favored over its competitor‚ Saccharin‚ because it did not possess a bitter aftertaste. For a very brief period of time Dulcin was marketed
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