By Anna Dube, Summerlin Gates Faculty Mentor: Davis Oldham Abstract The purpose of this lab was to synthesize 4-piperidinol, 4-(4-bromophenyl)-1-(2-naphthalenylmethyl)-(9Br, ABr), a drug to treat tuberculosis. To a solution of thionyl chloride and chloromethane chloride, we gradually added 2-napthalene methanol to chloromethane chloride and heated and refluxed and rotor evaporated. To confirm it worked, we…