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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

How is glycerol obtained from propene?

How can you convert glycerol into Acrolein?

When Glycerol treated with dehydrating agents like H2SO4, P2O5 or KHSO4 then it undergoes dehydration and remove all the water molecules to give unsaturated Aldehyde named Acrolein.

What is the product formed when glycerol react with Excess HI?

Reaction of glycerol with limited amount of warmed HI gives allyl iodide.
While in the presence of excess amount of HI, then allyl iodide reduced to propene, which further reacts with HI and forms isopropyle iodide.

What is Noble’s oil and how can obtained from glycerol/glycerine?


Nitroglycerine or glyceryl trinitrate is known as Noble’s oil because it is discovered by Alfred Noble and it is an explosive.

A mixture of glyceryl trinitrate and glyceryl dinitrate and Kieselguhr (a kind of porous Clay) is called dynamite