Chemical Synthesis and Design (HSC SSCE Chemistry): Flashcards

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Synthesis Reactions
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Synthesis in chemistry

Using chemistry to create new products

Goals of chemical synthesis

Economically, safely, efficiently, minimise waste

Source of salicin

Willow bark

Chemical name for aspirin

Acetylsalicylic acid

Intermediates in synthesis

Products formed in one step, used as reactants in next step

Retrosynthetic analysis

Working backwards from product to identify starting reactants

Product of contact process

Sulfuric acid

Intermediates in contact process

Sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide

Linear sequence in synthesis

One reaction follows another, product becomes next reactant

Convergent sequence in synthesis

Separate pathways merge, products combine in final reaction

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