Brady's Reagent - Periodic Table of Videos
Professor Simon Woodward demonstrates Brady's Reagent - 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazine. It has received publicity lately due to concerns about possible explosions of stocks kept in UK schools....
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We are gonna have a look at -- today, something that's been hitting the headlines. And we're gonna be talking about this compound here, which it rejoices under the acronym: 2,4-DNP. So that translates to 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazyne. You've particularly sort of appreciate it because its trivial name is Brady's Reagent but it also rejoices under the trivial name of Bosche's Reagent. Well, I guess, what we'd like to start the story with is taking you way back to the dawn of organic chemistry, in maybe the 1750's through about 1980's. All of the modern techniques that --as a student or as a member of the public that we learn about, before the martyr of modern analytical techniques, are not available. In fact, the only technique that...
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We are gonna have a look at -- today, something that's been hitting the headlines. And we're gonna be talking about this compound here, which it rejoices under the acronym: 2,4-DNP. So that translates to 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazyne. You've particularly sort of appreciate it because its trivial name is Brady's Reagent but it also rejoices under the trivial name of Bosche's Reagent. Well, I guess, what we'd like to start the story with is taking you way back to the dawn of organic chemistry, in maybe the 1750's through about 1980's. All of the modern techniques that --as a student or as a member of the public that we learn about, before the martyr of modern analytical techniques, are not available. In fact, the only technique that...
