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Plants inspired early scientists to look at the compounds that gave them their properties. From this evolved the entire realm of structural and theoretical organic chemistry.
Plants inspired early scientists to look at the compounds that gave them their properties. From this evolved the entire realm of structural and theoretical organic chemistry.
| Module code and title: | S246, Organic chemistry |
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| Item code: | S246; 09 |
| First transmission date: | 11-07-1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:23 |
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| Producer: | P. L Firstbrook |
| Contributors: | Barry Charlwood; Peter Taylor |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | 17th century garden; Cholestrerol; Herbs and Spices; Kew Gardens; Monoterpanes; Orange peel; Polymer chains; Terpenes, menthol and camphor |
| Footage description: | Footage - Queen's Garden, Kew (0'15"-0'55") Graphics of menthol, geraniol, nerol, myrcene, alpha-terpineol, camphor. Otto Wallach. Isoprene rule (0'56"-2' 30") - Pint of beer. Graphic of mevalonic acid. Graphic of mevalonic acid bein g converted into two five carbon units, the precursors of all mono terpenes (2 '57"-4'52") - Rose bushes. Hybrid 't' rose. (5'28"-6'07") - Model of mevalonic acid. Tracer technique to produce radioactive mono terpenes. Rose petals in liquid nitrogen. Column chromatography. Thin layer chromatography. Graphic of r adioactive geraniol. (6'16"-12'58") Graphic of mevalonic acid being radioactively labelled at 2 positions (12'59"-13'46") - Graphic of degredation schemes used to cleave a geraniol molecule (13'47"-16'45") - Spectrum of carbon 13 NMR using non-enriched geraniol (17'13"-17'32") - Computer animation of modificati on of geraniol to give monoterpenes (18'12"-19'48") - Graphics of farnesol, ipha-cadinene, phytol (20'05"-20'28"). Computer animation of biosynthesis of farnesol (20'52"-21'20") Palm house of Kew. Animation of squalene folding by a series of bond rotation from a linear C30 molecule to give the steroid nucleus (21'21"-23'37"). |
| Master spool number: | HOU3313 |
| Production number: | FOUS101W |
| Videofinder number: | 4366 |
| Available to public: | no |
