Скачать или смотреть The Chemistry of Why Bees Smell Like Bananas

When a honeybee stings, it releases more than venom. It also releases a chemical that smells like bananas, a powerful alarm signal called isoamyl acetate. In this video we explore how bees use this scent to communicate danger, then recreate it in the lab through a Fischer esterification reaction. From reflux and distillation to testing it on real hives and confirming it with analytical chemistry, we show how a simple compound connects the hidden language of bees to classic organic chemistry.

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