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    Meaningful Melting Points Kenneth Nolon Carter"? Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC 28025 Kenneth N. Carter, Jr. Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, MO 63501 ‘That melting points are still important and widely used in organic chemistry is shown by Table |. As Tiers (1) points out, “This rapid and inexpensive technique re- ‘mains a necessary link to the vast pre- strumental literature, and continues to signify impurity and to provide virtually unpredictable, and hence unfalsifiable, data on newly prepared compounds.” We suggest practical methods of making this information for capillary melting points ‘more useful than is frequently the case. ‘These involve the proper degree of preei- sion, the use of the meniscus point in cer- tain ’cases, and, as has been emphasized by Tiers (1, 2), the use of good standards. The importance of carefully eontrolled and specified conditions became very evident from the ‘work described in the experimental seetion, Table 1. Metting-Poi “otal numberof papers points Number rounding to 1 Number eporting ‘men: cus point Routine Melting Points ‘Tiers (2) studied 196 papers published in 1988 in the Journal of Organie Chemistry and found considerable con- fusion as to the distinction between corrected and uncor- rected melting points. (Many authors apparently equated “corrected ‘calibrated”.) A several-degree uncer- tainty may, therefore, arise. Therefore, the melting-point, range may provide the most dependable and helpful infor- ‘mation if itis sufficiently precise. ‘Table 1 shows that melting-point values currently are read or rounded to the nearest 1 °C in most eases. An ob- served 0.6 °C melting range of 93.2-93.8 °C for a quite pure compound would be rounded to 93-94 °C, as would one of 925-944 °C, for which the 1.9 °C range signals, at best, ‘mediocre purity. Yet the similar 2.2 °C range of 92.4-94.6,

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