Lab work on 7/7/21
Upon returning to the lab, it was found that a beaker containing the MOED solution was completely dried up. What is needed to be done now is to wash the beaker with some water, and filter out the MOED crystals.
The other flask that was left over is a round bottom flask. The round bottom flask contained an experiment to test whether the methyl group being on the ortho position relative to the Nitrogen heteroatom would affect the formation of a MOED-like product. The round bottom flask was gently heated with 200mL of 0.2M KOH for an hour. The apparatus is shown below.
The KOH solution serves to dehydrate the alcohol (II), and form a double bond, which is the MOED-like molecule (III)
Note that the scheme above [Journal of Chemical Education 54 (1977) 709] made (III), which has the double bond located para to the Nitrogen heteroatom on the left. The round bottom flask is currently trying a similar reaction, but with the double bond located ortho to the Nitrogen heteroatom.
To confirm the structure of the products, NMR will be performed on the purified products.
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