Aspirin to Acetaminophen - Part 2 of 6: Conversion of ASA to Salicylic Acid

Hey guys, today we will be going over the second step in the quest to acetaminophen. In the previous video I extracted ASA from aspirin pills and now it is time to hydrolyze it to salicylic acid. This will be done by a simple acid-catalyzed ester hydrolysis. The next step in this process is the decarboxylation to phenol.

Link to UnintentionalChaos procedure: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whispe...

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