Lactones are cyclic esters that arise when a carboxyl group and an alcohol group in the same molecule condense to form an ester. Synthetic esters are also important and found in many places, including the polyesters known as Dacron, prepared from terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol, and Kodel. Emil Fischer was a German scientist who received his Ph. He taught at Erlangen, Wurzburg, and Berlin Universities.
Fischer's work essentially laid the foundation of modern biochemistry. Fischer was the first to synthesize phenylhydrazine, which was an important reagent in his work on elucidating the structures of most of the carbohydrates.
During a three-year period beginning in , Fischer established not only the basic structures, but also the configurations of all the known sugars. In the process, he developed a method to represent the three-dimensional molecular structures in two-dimensional drawings. These structures have become known as Fischer projection formulas. This work by Fischer led directly to proving the existence of the asymmetric carbon atom, a concept proposed by Van't Hoff and Lebel in In addition to carbohydrate chemistry, Fischer did extensive work on the chemistry of purine and compounds having purine as their nucleus.
Purine is one of the two nitrogen base ring systems present in DNA. Fischer was also active in the area of protein chemistry. He demonstrated that amino acids are the basic subunits from which proteins are constructed. He also devised methods for the synthesis of many of the known amino acids. Perhaps his most ingenious contribution was the 'lock and key" hypothesis of how proteins bind with substrates of complementary shapes.
This work ultimately led to our understanding of how enzymes, the catalysts of biochemical reactions, function.
Regarded as the greatest organic chemist of his time, Emil Fischer became the second chemist to receive the Nobel Prize Fischer committed suicide in following the death of his wife and the loss of two of his three sons.
The Fischer esterification is an equilibrium reaction whereas other esterification routes do not involve an equilibrium. To shift the equilibrium to favor the production of esters, it is customary to use an excess of one of the reactants, either the alcohol or the acid.
In the present reaction, we will be using an excess of the acetic acid, because it is cheaper and easier to remove than the alcohol note the similar boiling points of the alcohol and acetate.
Another way to drive a reaction toward its products is to remove one of the products as it forms. In this experiment, we will remove the water formed in the reaction by adding silica beads directly to the reaction vessel and by using a drying tube with drying agent calcium chhioride , which prevents the introduction of water.
The mechanism for this reaction involves the nucleophilic addition of the alcohol to the carbonyl group of the protonated acid, followed by elimination of a proton. The tetrahedral intermediate is unstable under the acidic conditions of the reaction and undergoes dehydration to form the ester.
Because esters can be hydrolyzed under acidic or basic conditions, it is not a good idea to stop this reaction before the acid catalyst has been neutralized. Hydrolysis is the breaking of the ester apart back to the acid and the alcohol.
This reaction can be useful; if the hydrolysis is carried out under basic conditions, it is referred to as a saponification. Saponification is an irreversible reaction in which one mole of base is consumed per mole of ester to generate the carboxylic acid anion. The apparatus will be heated using a heating manifold placed on top of a stirring hot plate hot plate is not used to provide heat, only to stir the contents of the reaction flask.
Secure the reaction setup to a ring stand using a three prong clamp attached to the condenser column, so that the reaction vessel after the reaction is completed can be easily elevated and cooled in the air. After the minute reaction is complete, turn off the heating mantel and elevate the reaction flask to allow it to cool to room temperature. Carefully decant pour the liquid part of the reaction container using a funnel into a Separatory Funnel make certain that the silica gel beads and stirring bar remain in the reaction container.
Remove the stirring bar and discard the silica gel beads into the solid waste container. After your reflux is finished, and the liquid reaction mixture has been added to the Separatory Funnel, you will need to do washes to neutralize the sulfuric and acetic acid in the mixture.
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