Place 3.8g of benzoin and 12ml concentrated HNO3 in a 50ml round bottomed flask. Heat the mixture in a fume chamber on a steam bath with occasional shaking for about 1½ hours (or until the evolution of the brown fumes stops).
Pour into a stirred mixture of crushed ice and water, filter off the crystalline precipitate with suction and wash it with water (why?). Recrystallize the solid from about 7ml boiling ethanol. Record yield; m.p.; IR and UV of your product. Keep what you do not use in the n
Place 3.8g of benzoin and 12ml concentrated HNO3 in a 50ml round bottomed flask. Heat the mixture in a fume chamber on a steam bath with occasional shaking for about 1½ hours (or until the evolution of the brown fumes stops).
Pour into a stirred mixture of crushed ice and water, filter off the crystalline precipitate with suction and wash it with water (why?). Recrystallize the solid from about 7ml boiling ethanol. Record yield; m.p.; IR and UV of your product. Keep what you do not use in the n
Place 3.8g of benzoin and 12ml concentrated HNO3 in a 50ml round bottomed flask. Heat the mixture in a fume chamber on a steam bath with occasional shaking for about 1½ hours (or until the evolution of the brown fumes stops).
Pour into a stirred mixture of crushed ice and water, filter off the crystalline precipitate with suction and wash it with water (why?). Recrystallize the solid from about 7ml boiling ethanol. Record yield; m.p.; IR and UV of your product. Keep what you do not use in the n