hi! i need to bring in supplies to chemisrty class tomorrow to build a caffeine moecule. I know that the c is carbon, the o is oxygen, and the h is hydrogen. What is the N? I know that it should be nitrogen, but I cannot find any info realted to nitrogen in caffeine. also can you think of any household items that would be creative to use in this project???
thanks so much! have a good day everybody!
2007-03-11 06:31:09 · 3 answers · asked by Melt_me_away 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
You can get pure caffeine out of concentrated lipton tea with liquid extraction and sublimation.
You can see the structure of caffeine here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine
2007-03-11 06:44:49 · answer #1 · answered by Ferts 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Caffeine (C8H10N4O2) is the common name for trimethylxanthine (systematic name is 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine or 3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione). You can see a structural formula on the link below.
N=nitrogen and there of 4 nitrogen atoms in the structure.
The second link will give you an idea of what the molecule could look like if that's what your project requires.
2007-03-11 13:51:14 · answer #2 · answered by JJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem98.htm
2007-03-11 13:35:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋