1) What chemical was the Permanganate testing for? What type of reagent is permanganate (reducing agent, nucleophile, etc.)? What chemical was the ceric nitrate testing for? In a positive ceric nitrate test, the chemical in the previous question in present; what reaction does the presence of this chemical indicate had happened? 2) During this experiment, we exposed solutions of aspartame to base. What was the product of this reaction? Suppose you took your beverage containing aspartame and exposed it to concentrated H2SO4 and heat. What are products you might observe that you didn’t just mention? Which bond(s) are broken in the formation of these products? 3) This experiment relied on TLC and other qualitative tests. Why were IR or NMR spectroscopy not an option for analysis? 4) Which colors were observed after dipping your TLC plate in ninhydrin? Why were there multiple different colored products, and what functional groups did each colored product contain? What features of the starting material’s structure caused these colorimetric differences?