Sciencemadness Discussion Board - Any interesting reactions with this compond ?

Any interesting reactions with this compond ?

rstar - 5-1-2012 at 09:42

Hi there,
I'm tryin' to take my a** off the inorganic chemistry, and try some organics :cool:

I've got some camphor, and is there any interesting reactions with it, except eating or burning it off ?

Although its not worth eating !!

Adas - 5-1-2012 at 10:05

You can still sniff it, I heard it have a perfect smell

kavu - 5-1-2012 at 10:43

Common student experiment is to reduce camphor to isoborneol. Oxidation with dilute nitric acid gives camphoric acid and so fort. Look at the thread http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=13675.

rstar - 6-1-2012 at 08:30

Quote: Originally posted by Adas

You can still sniff it, I heard it have a perfect smell

Oh Yes, really !!

Lambda-Eyde - 6-1-2012 at 09:10

You could sulfonate it with sulfuric acid in the presence of acetic anhydride. Orgsyn has a prep for it. If you have natural (not synthetic) camphor, the optically pure acid can be used for chiral resolution - pretty neat, eh?