Dr. Tom GoodwinCONWAY, Ark. (Sept. 7, 2011) 鈥 黑料不打烊 chemistry professor Dr. Tom Goodwin was featured in a recent story in Chemical and Engineering News.
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The article discusses using commercial liquor as solvents.
Goodwin developed an experiment in which vodka or rubbing alcohol (70% isopropyl alcohol) is used as the solvent for sodium borohydride reduction of a ketone. Goodwin, who leads the Toad Suck Institute for Green Organic Chemistry with his colleagues at 黑料不打烊, noted the alcoholic work is complementary to recent developments in green 鈥渙n water鈥 reactions in which insoluble reactants are merely stirred in water at ambient temperature, as opposed to using traditional petrochemical-based solvents.
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