Using Green Chemistry methodology, it has been demonstrated that by combining acetophenone, substituted acetophenones, indanone, alpha tetralones, and substituted alpha tetralones with trans cinnamaldehyde, substituted trans cinnamaldehydes and alpha methyl trans cinnamaldehyde yielded chalcone-like derivatives. Chemical analyses of these derivatives offer undergraduate instruction opportunities including: melting point measurements, recrystallization, and spectroscopic characterization (IR, UV/Vis, NMR and MS). This work describes characterization of several Green aldol products by 1D and 2D NMR in an effort to investigate which of the 2D heteronuculear NMR techniques are best suited for introducing such NMR techniques to undergraduate students pursuing a science degree with a chemistry focus.

Characterization by 1D and 2D NMR of substituent effects on chalcone-like derivatives

2019 Fall National Meeting

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