Rhonda L. Scaccia, David Coughlin, and David W. Ball Cleveland State University, Department of Chemistry, Euclid Avenue at East 24th Street, Cleveland, OH 44115
We have reproduced Perkin's synthesis of mauve and have scaled it down to microscale levels. As such, we present a synthesis of mauve that can be performed in a microscale organic chemistry laboratory.
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Scaccia, Rhonda L.; Coughlin, David; Ball, David W. J. Chem. Educ.1998 75 769.
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