LAB REPORT

Lab Report



Experiment 1-Synthesis of Aspirin

Introduction

Aspirin is chemically known as acetylsalicylic acid that is a artificial organically originated medicine from salicylic acid. On the other hand, salicylic acid is assumed to be a natural product. This non-artificial ingredient is found in the bark of 'willow tree'. There are numerous medicines that use this ingredient as a sole provider of painkiller and are also utilized to reduce the symptoms of fever as anti-pyretic and anti-inflammatory that lessens swelling. The medicine alone is indeed one of the extensively used medicines around the world.

Methods and Procedures

Aspirin Preparation

It requires 1g of salicylic ...