Romix
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Paracetamol
I heated up pure crystalline paracetamol, and it melted.
First time I melted it, it wos see through.
Paracetamol changed colour to dark brown on fifth melt.
It's insoluble in cold water, soluble if heated, crystallises to dark crystals.
What is it?
I dissolved it in NaOH now to clean tube walls, still brown...
[Edited on 27-6-2015 by Romix]
[Edited on 27-6-2015 by Romix]
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Pumukli
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It is still paracetamol, but contains increasing ammounts of oxidation byproducts from the repeated melting. You may purify it by adding activated
charcoal before recrystallization, though don't expect too much pure product, even less, if you continue re-melting. :-)
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azobenzene is the red compound in the case of the reduction of nitrobenzene to aniline, this product is the result of the reaction of aniline with
nitrosobenzene. The last product is formed by the oxidation of aniline with oxygen, I think it's a similar byproduct.
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