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Natural product chemistry : 

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?

Natural products : 

Natural products What are they? Chemicals found in living things Where can you find them? What can you do with them?

Where can you find them? : 

Where can you find them? Plants (spearmint), animals, bacteria carvone

Marine Natural products : 

Marine Natural products Gorgonian octacoral Octalactin A

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How do you get them?

What you do with them? : 

What you do with them? Fragrances Pharmaceuticals Food additives

Task : 

Task Here are a mixture of natural products with common fragrances Match the fragrance to the natural product

What does the organic chemist do? : 

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

Building : 

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.

Task : 

Task Watch video clip from bbc senses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jYtpOlKsTI How bad was the smell? We will make our own brand of fragrance

What you have to do : 

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

They look more like this : 

They look more like this

Chemists : 

Chemists