Organic Chemistry Tutors and Antiderivatives

Organic Chemistry Tutors and Antiderivatives'Does your chemical laboratory use antiderivatives?' You can ask a chemistry tutor this question as part of your investigation. Antiderivatives are chemicals which are part of the process of synthesis. There are many different chemicals used in the process of synthesis.Synthesis is a very important science, which needs to be carried out properly. Any form of failure is a failure to be proud of. So let us look at what happens in the synthesis process. First a simple example of an antiderivative is sodium nitrate.Sodium nitrate is a simple chemical in itself, that is all. If it were not for the sodium we would not need sodium nitrate. But no we use it because it breaks down to make ammonium nitrate. That is just the beginning of the antiderivative.In chemistry we have to deal with chemistry and we need to know the chemical properties of all of the elements. This is where the antiderivative comes in. We can use a small amount of one antideriva tive to combine smaller amounts of other antiderivatives, but we have to get them from somewhere. The antiderivative chemicals can help us here.Some of the reactions which are carried out in synthesis are related to the calculation of the molecular weights and we need to understand the relation between the molecular weight and the chemical properties of the element. This is where the antiderivative comes in. We can take a small amount of the main antiderivative and add it to the main antiderivative.As with any synthesis, there will be incomplete products. Toremove these compounds we take an alkali and pass it through a catalyst. This gives us a compound which we can carry out further chemical reactions with.A good tutor will tell you to only use one antiderivative at a time, that way you will not get your hands dirty and you will not get them mixed up. Remember that if the reactants do not separate well, it is possible for the reactants to react and combine to give a new compound.Tr y this for yourself, why not make your own antiderivative? I think you will agree that making these has been well worth it. So why not try it for yourself, give it a go.