Honors Program Theses
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Open Access Honors Program Thesis
First Advisor
Shoshanna Coon
Abstract
In an attempt to extract a green dye from newsprint advertisements, it was serendipitously discovered that a purple substance can be extracted from newsprint paper using methanol or acetic acid.1 Further investigations involving blank newsprint paper showed that the purple substance was a part of the paper itself rather than a component of the ink in the advertisements. Soxhlet extraction was used on the blank newspaper print to obtain the compound. Using different analytical instruments, characteristics of the compound were determined such as potential structures, functional groups, and percent composition. The ultimate goal was to determine the compound and its structure.
Year of Submission
2023
Department
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University Honors Designation
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the designation University Honors
Date Original
5-2023
Object Description
1 PDF file (25 pages)
Copyright
©2023 Raquel Wilhelm
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Wilhelm, Raquel, "Investigation of Unexpected Purple Substance Extracted from Newsprint Paper" (2023). Honors Program Theses. 689.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/hpt/689
