Hi
I'm currently studing the OCR Salters Advanced Chemistry Course at school, and about to start the A2 Individual Investigation. Amongst the ideas I have, I am most interested in looking at organic synthesis of a compound. In terms of the practical content it would get me high marks as the techniques used could/will include reflux, distilation etc. However, I can not think of any significantly hard calculations that i could do to go along side the work, except calculating percentage yield.
There are many marks available for calculations that are fairly complicated, so if possible could i have some suggestions on what I could calculate from synthesising a compund such as oxidising butan-1-ol to butanone.
Many thanks
Ryan
