Multiple Choice
Passage
The drug paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, is used to relieve pain and fever, and is a metabolite of the antipyretic drug phenacetin (Figure 1) . These two drugs have similar medicinal properties, but phenacetin has been shown to be carcinogenic and cause kidney damage. Acetaminophen is a safer alternative to phenacetin when taken in therapeutic doses.
Figure 1 Structure of phenacetinA student synthesizes acetaminophen in a laboratory from phenol according to the reactions shown. The synthesis begins with the nitration of phenol by sodium nitrate (NaNO3) to produce the mixture of the isomers 2-nitrophenol and 4-nitrophenol (Reaction 1) . These isomers can be easily separated by steam distillation to isolate the desired product, 4-nitrophenol. Reduction of the nitro group with sodium borohydride (NaBH4) (Reaction 2) is followed by acetylation of the amine with acetic anhydride (Reaction 3) to afford the final product, acetaminophen.
Reaction 1
Reaction 2
Reaction 3
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The compound 4-nitrophenol shown contains all of the following signals in its infrared spectrum EXCEPT:
A) O-H stretch
B) C=C stretch
C) N-O stretch
D) N-H stretch
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