It's corn! Corn is a staple of our diet and has been for hundreds of years. It is the second most grown crop, loved by many, and most likely, you will eat a corn product today. After the corn kernels are taken off the cob, we are left with a pile of seemingly useless corn cobs, or are they? It may seem impossible, but we can do chemistry with these discarded cobs and get a pretty fascinating compound, furfural from corn cobs.

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References and uses:
1. Kuzmina, Natalia. "Renewable Feedstocks and Biocatalysts: Furoin Condensation." In: Organic Synthesis Laboratory Manual, Chapter 22
2. Corma, A.; Iborra, S.; Velty, A. "Chemical Routes for the Transformation of Biomass into Chemicals." Chemical Reviews, 2007, 107, 2411-2502.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Reaction
02:32 Extraction
03:45 Analysis
07:27 Clean up
07:38 Outro

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