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Natural product chemistry Dr J White Identify different natural products Synthesise your own perfume
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What is your impression of a chemist? Write down one job that a chemist does?
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Natural products What are they? Chemicals found in living things Where can you find them? What can you do with them?
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Where can you find them? Plants (spearmint), animals, bacteria carvone
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Marine Natural products Gorgonian octacoral Octalactin A
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How do you get them?
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What you do with them? Fragrances Pharmaceuticals Food additives
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Task Here are a mixture of natural products with common fragrances Match the fragrance to the natural product
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What does the organic chemist do? Marine life have only a small amount of the active component. Pharmaceutical companies want to make these compounds – Big scale – Cheap – Safe – Improve on nature
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Building We have to look at the target structure and create a strategy to build it. Check our big recipe book of reactions Building a car or baking a cake.
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Task Watch video clip from bbc senses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jYtpOlKs TI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jYtpOlKs TI How bad was the smell? We will make our own brand of fragrance
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What you have to do Safety Wear gloves & safety glasses Mix different ratios of base notes least fragrance Middle notes Top notes most volatile We will judge how good the fragrance is.
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Top Eucalyptus Lemon
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Middle geranium lavender
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Bottom Jasmine Patchouli Ylang ylang
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Bottom Jasmine Patchouli Ylang ylang Middle geranium lavender Top Eucalyptus Lemon
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Chemistry Physics Biology Bio Chemistry Bio physics Chemical physics
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Chemists
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