Making Brooker's Merocyanine

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by Super User, 6 years ago
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For this video, I decided to make Brooker’s Merocyanine, also called MOED, which exhibits solvatochromism. This means that it its color changes drastically, depending on the solvent that it’s dissolved in.

I thought this effect was really cool and I wanted to try it out myself. Also, chemical companies sell it for hundreds of dollars a gram, and I wanted to see how much cheaper I could make it for.


Procedure: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed054p709
Reference: https://cdn-pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja971477m

Special thanks to my Patron Jean-Pierre Ribreau (who I forgot to add to the final credit, I'm sorry!!),

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