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Question

Tobacco companies disproportionately advertised cigarettes containing this flavorant to Black Americans in the 1960s and 1970s. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this compound responsible for the flavor and cold-inducing feeling of mint. The FDA authorized vape companies to market products containing this compound in June 2024.

ANSWER: menthol

[10h] Perhaps the most significant industrial application of this chemist’s Nobel Prize work was an asymmetric synthesis of menthol from myrcene. This Japanese chemist pioneered using rhodium with BINAP ligands to catalyze asymmetric hydrogenations.

ANSWER: Ryōji Noyori [or Noyori Ryōji]

[10m] Like most other essential oils, natural menthol extraction from the mint plant typically uses the “steam” form of this procedure. A Perkin triangle may be used to perform this procedure under low pressures.

ANSWER: distillation [accept steam distillation or vacuum distillation]

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	18.00	80%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%

Data


Boston College A	BU	10	0	10	20
Harvard	Boston College B	10	0	0	10
Waterloo Aspidistra	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	10	10	0	20
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Carleton A	10	0	0	10
Toronto A	Waterloo Basic	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	10	0	10	20
Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	Toronto Metropolitan A	10	0	0	10
Claremont	SGV Ventures	10	0	10	20
Anderson et al.	Jason et al.	10	10	10	30
ALCU	U[C]SD	10	0	10	20
WashU	Squidward Community College	10	10	10	30
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	Old and Young	10	10	10	30
Paddington in Peru (2024)	Madmen and Specialists	10	0	10	20
Social credit go vroom	The cult of SGA	10	0	10	20
In the Mood for Buzz	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	10	10	10	30
bingy academy	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	0	10	20
McGill A	Waterloo Cloze	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Milton	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Milton	10	0	10	20
Lambert	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Innovation Academy C	10	0	10	20
Innovation Academy B	Innovation Academy A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Johns Creek	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Milton	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Milton	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Innovation Academy B	10	10	10	30
Bowdoin C	Amherst	10	0	10	20
MIT	Bowdoin A	10	0	10	20
Tufts B	Brandeis A	10	0	0	10
Clark House	Yale	10	0	10	20
North Carolina A	North Carolina B	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech B	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech C	South Carolina	10	0	10	20
RIT	Maryland	10	0	0	10
Pitt	Penn State	10	0	10	20
UCF B	Valencia	10	0	0	10
UF A	UF C	10	0	10	20
UF B	UCF A	10	0	0	10
Berkeley Past	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Purdue B	10	0	10	20
Illinois Blue	SIUE	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	Notre Dame	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Bristol	10	0	0	10
Cambridge A	Cambridge B	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	LSE A	0	0	0	0
Southampton	Warwick B	10	0	10	20
Warwick C	Imperial B	10	0	10	20