Ethanol

When drinking, no matter how much a person may have had, driving home should not be an option. There is no such thing that someone is ‘too good of a driver’ to get into an accident due to their intoxication. There is an easy way to avoid causing disaster to yourself or to someone else, do not drink and drive. There is no justifiable answer or claim to make when a driver has severely injured or even killed someone else, ‘I’m so sorry’ will never fix the damage they have caused. The interview of…

To determine whether the two isomers were different compounds, the melting point and solubility test had to be done. Maleic acid was prepped from dissolving maleic acid anhydride in deionized water, cooled, then filtered, and fumaric acid was prepped from refluxing the filtrate from the vacuum filtration, cooled and then filtered. Because fumaric acid did not dissolve in water or melt after being heated 3-5 minutes, it is safe to say that it is a completely different compound from maleic acid.…

As a legal beverage for the last century, alcohol is an important staple in the American economy. In 1984 alcohol provided federal, state, and local tax funds totaling approximately 12.5 billion dollars, and provided jobs for at least 784,000 people. With the significant impact that the sale of alcohol had/has on the American economy, it became important to find something to compensate for the loss in revenue when the treatment of alcohol abuse reached its peak in the 1970’s. The compensation…

The consumption of alcohol should be prohibited from public use. Whenever an individual or a group of people decide to consume alcohol in a public setting they’re putting other people’s lives on the line. “DUI remains the single largest cause of automotive related fatalities in the state of California with 63.5% of motor vehicle-related deaths caused by drunk drivers” (California Drunk Driving Information). Contrariwise, despite the incrementing alcohol-related incidents some people still…

Buret was rinsed with water and NaOH, and followed by filling with NaOH solution made in the first week of lab. An acid of unknown concentration was prepared by the instructor and given for analysis. 25.00 mL of the acid was transferred into an Erlenmeyer flask using a volumetric pipette and 2-3 drops of phenolphthalein were added. The resulting solution was titrated with NaOH to achieve the faint pink endpoint and [unknown] was calculated according to the volume of NaOH used. The purpose of…

In order to simplify the calculations, the following assumptions were made: 1. The addition of PC to the first isocyanate function of DI cannot change the reactivity of the residual isocyanate. 2. All polymer chains have the same diffusion ability no matter with them chain length 3. Degradation reactions occur at the same rate for all samples regardless of the nature and molecular weight of chains 4. The increase in temperature during mixing due to the shear viscose heat and the heat released…

First, 2-aryl-5-methoxy oxazoles were prepared by the method of Wipf’s protocol*) from methyl N-acyl glycine methyl esters in the presence of Et3N in DCE with PPh3 and I2 at room temperature for 19-24hr. These reactions proceeded in mild condition and gave 2x to 80-97% yield by column chromatography. Then, we attempted to apply the method of Friedel–Crafts acylation in order to synthesis of acylated oxazoles from 5-methoxy -2-phenyl oxazole (*). The normal conditions which used Lewis acid…

Drunk drivers should be imprisoned on the first defense because drunken driving laws are not as strict as they should be. Whether you are caught right above the legal limit or triple the legal limit, you deserve to face some sort of jail time. We as a country need to be way more serious about driving under the influence. Too many innocent people die or become severely injured because of a “drunk driver” With the consequence of having to face jail time, will hopefully change someone’s decision…

Drinking and driving is a serious issue in the contemporary society. This act of driving in a drunken state is responsible for thousands of lives every single year. Children women pedestrians, other drivers, buildings, nothing is safe when it comes in front of drunk drivers. Drunk driving can or can’t be stopped this controversial debate has been active for several years. Some believe that theoretically, drunk driving can be stopped but when we will try to implement a practical plan, no proposal…

Driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol is one of the most dangerous things you can do. Alcohol causes: drowsiness, distorted vision, impaired judgment, decreased perception and lack of coordination. More people need to be deterred from driving after having too much to drink. Many drunk drivers are repeat offenders and impaired driving is the leading cause of criminal death in Canada. The penalties for impaired driving should be more severe. Firstly, the penalties for drunk…