CHEM 181 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Saccharin, Constantin Fahlberg, Splenda

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: Mitchell Huot

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In north america, 2/3 of the people are obese/overweight. Some are nutritive- they do give some calories, but only a small amount. Us: consumes half of all non-nutritive sweeteners in the world. He worked in the lab of ira remsen (john hopkins uni, in london) Same sweetness as saccharose (chemical name for sugar) 1879: ira and constantin wrote many articles, published in germany (center for chemistry) 1884: constantin patented alone the synthesis of saccharin. He established a saccharin factory in germany, became rich. Ira was mad that constantin worked behind his back. Na(cid:373)e of (cid:272)o(cid:373)pa(cid:374)(cid:455): mo(cid:374)sa(cid:374)to (f(cid:396)o(cid:373) his wife"s (cid:374)a(cid:373)e- hispanic) Has a bitter after-taste other compounds are always added to it. Their parents were also fed saccharin for a lifetime. Increased incidence of bladder cancer among male rats fed saccharin. Available in canada under the name of hermeseta than their parent compounds. The sodiu(cid:373) salt of sa(cid:272)(cid:272)ha(cid:396)i(cid:374) is what"s (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g used ((cid:271)e(cid:272)ause salts a(cid:396)e (cid:373)o(cid:396)e solu(cid:271)le.