Guest Posted February 12, 2016 Report Share Posted February 12, 2016 Hei. My chemistry teacher hasn't approved of any of my proposals for my IA, and now I'm falling behind. The one that really caught my eye was the "effect of HCl on medicinal tablets, specifically Tylenol". However, he explained to me that there isn't really a result for this except that pH decreases. I understand his reasoning. I need a way to refine this. I've no clue how. I thought of reaction rate, but this topic was solely based on what happens in the stomach. There is gastric acid or HCl in the stomach that digest whatever enter the stomach. I can't react NaOH with HCl to determine the effect on the tablet. I understand that that's a titration lab, but I'm not interested in that, and that doesn't happen in the stomach. I then did further research on tylenol and looked at what are its ingredients (inactive and active) and tried to find a correlation with HCl. But they all had fancy names, researched all of them and got no where. I don't know what to do. I also looked at Aspirin, but it did no good. I know that Tylenol contains different functional groups than Aspirin, but can I do my IA based on that? Like bonding? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kw0573 Posted February 12, 2016 Report Share Posted February 12, 2016 Instead of going with complex molecules and look for what you know, try search on what you DO know about aromatics and organic chemistry and find some more complex examples. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 12, 2016 Report Share Posted February 12, 2016 Instead of going with complex molecules and look for what you know, try search on what you DO know about aromatics and organic chemistry and find some more complex examples.I'm stilled stumped. Do u think titrating it would make sense? Even though that doesn't happen in the stomach. I'm so lost. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kw0573 Posted February 12, 2016 Report Share Posted February 12, 2016 I thought I made it clear enough. Built your IA on a concept you know. You don't have to do tylenol or aspirin. If you want to do acid-base reactions, pick some function groups you know are acidic or basic. If you don't know what to do with these aromatics, don't do them for IA. I am not here to come up with something that works for tylenol or aspirin, im here so you find a good IA topic asap and don't fall further behind than your classmates. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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