Question by Navera: What are two products (food, cosmetics, toiletries, etc) that have chemicals in them with easy structures?
I have to do a project for chem, where I have to choose two products with chemicals in their ingredients and I have to tell the purpose of all the ingredients as well as draw the structure of them. Please help!!!
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Answer by Wesker
1) acylamide: found in some foods (olives, etc.,)
http://ejeafche.uvigo.es/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_view/gid,43/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide#Prepared_foods
2) ethanol: found in alcoholic beverages, fuel additive, etc.,
http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/pdf/ethanol.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol#As_a_fuel
I would recommend using organic compounds since you want “easy structures.” you can also go into methods of determining structure if relevant (i.e. NMR, IR spec, UV-vis, etc.,)
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