rstar
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Any interesting reactions with this compond ?
Hi there,
I'm tryin' to take my a** off the inorganic chemistry, and try some organics 
I've got some camphor, and is there any interesting reactions with it, except eating or burning it off ? 
Although its not worth eating !!
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Adas
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You can still sniff it, I heard it have a perfect smell 
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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.
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rstar
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Oh Yes, really !!
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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?
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