Sulaiman
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Organic chemistry ... excite me !
I gained an interest in inorganic chemistry as a youth ... flash! ... bang! ... BOOM! etc.
Re-starting chemistry as a hobby has been interesting, still playing mostly with inorganics.
(my 'playing' is slowly getting more 'scientific' ... lab notebook mostly up to date !)
Plant extractions etc. interest me, so far more failures than successes but that is going to change ....
In small ammounts I have precursors to most organic reagents - many so far un-used 
I can't see anything in organic chemistry that excites me yet ... help please
(flash/bang/boom/wmd - free only)
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aga
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Fischer esterification, certainly.
Make methyl salicylate.
Start with almost no smell, end up with conc Listerine smell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJLP2bcXDqY
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Magpie
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Make some benzene! If you have benzoic acid and NaOH make the sodium benzoate first. Then decarboxylate this using heat. Capture the benzene using
a condenser. See the procedure in Brewster, forum library.
The single most important condition for a successful synthesis is good mixing - Nicodem
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clearly_not_atara
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The synthesis of diaryl oxalates might interest you. They don't explode but they do glow in the presence of H2O2.
I suggested once the transesterification of aryl acetates with oxalic acid, distilling off AcOH. Nobody yet knows if it works (other methods use
oxalyl chloride).
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j_sum1
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chemplayer just completed an interesting series beginning with white pepper. It bears replicating.
If you look up volanschemia's entry to the competition I ran, he begins with a mix of xylenes and ends up with phenolphthalien. There were other
possibilities too once phthalic anhydride had been produced.
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Volanschemia
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Here's the link to my competition entry post, if you are wanting to read it. Good luck if you give it a go!!
[Edited on 8-7-2016 by Volanschemia]
"The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and
vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the
Persian king" - Johann Joachim Becher, 1635 to 1682.
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PHILOU Zrealone
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"Organic chemistry ... excite me !"
All tastes are into the human nature 
Wait until you synthetizes viagra or related molécules...then you will be EXITED69 
No just kidding, I perfectly understand your problem...sometimes I'm awaken during the night and can't sleep anymore until I have written down
synthesis or drawn molécules I had in mind while sleeping/dreaming 
PH Z (PHILOU Zrealone)
"Physic is all what never works; Chemistry is all what stinks and explodes!"-"Life that deadly disease, sexually transmitted."(W.Allen)
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