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Butyric acid from butanol & KMnO4
Would the Jones reagent not work in this case? I thought it was quite suitable for oxidation of alco ...
26-7-2013 at 15:30
by: Rich_Insane
Cleaning Glassware
Try a concentrated NaOH bath. Use boiling water for best results. Be careful, over time, this treatm ...
26-7-2013 at 14:43
by: Rich_Insane
Ethyl acetate synthesis and mushroom extraction
You can get technical grade EtOAc cheaply online -- it's not a "watched" chemical if you're worried ...
25-7-2013 at 13:17
by: Rich_Insane
Drying IPA - easiest method
I use sodium hydroxide to dry my isopropanol.... If you need really, really dry IPA, wasn't there so ...
25-7-2013 at 13:10
by: Rich_Insane
Amine Alkylation Question
Would addition of a strong amine base, like diisopropylethylamine mitigate the formation of the quat ...
25-7-2013 at 13:06
by: Rich_Insane
Amides from Nitriles
Wonderful. This means that I won't be needing that pesky conc. H2O2.

On another note, I boiled th ...
18-7-2013 at 18:15
by: Rich_Insane
Where do I start?

In the past, I find that (as Vargouille has suggested), copper sulfate can be transformed into sli ...
18-7-2013 at 15:43
by: Rich_Insane
Using UV-VIS to determine purity?
In the lab where I used to work, we used UV-VIS to calculate concentrations of pigments. Typically, ...
18-7-2013 at 13:13
by: Rich_Insane
Amides from Nitriles
Thanks solo! That is very interesting. I found another reference using K2CO3/DMSO. I'm not sure what ...
18-7-2013 at 12:24
by: Rich_Insane
Amides from Nitriles
The procedure I am referring to comes from the book [b]"Vogel's Textbook of Practical Organic Chemis ...
18-7-2013 at 10:09
by: Rich_Insane
Difficult contaminant
What I've been doing is essentially boiling this "goo" with water. The aq. layer is siphoned off wit ...
1-4-2013 at 08:13
by: Rich_Insane
Difficult contaminant
Alright, so I've isolated a product. Basically I was forming amides from oximes using copper acetate ...
20-3-2013 at 13:25
by: Rich_Insane
What chemicals do you need?
Diethyl ether is at the top of my list. I cannot for the love of me find a source of cheap ether. I' ...
12-3-2013 at 15:30
by: Rich_Insane
Dangers of possible Terpene, cannabinoid, ozone reaction & free radical formation?
"budder" is not honey oil; it is cannabis that has been cooked in butter to extract the nonpolar com ...
3-3-2013 at 22:23
by: Rich_Insane
Blog Syn

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It would be stupid to waste experimental time on Indian and Iranian articles like these, ...
3-3-2013 at 22:09
by: Rich_Insane
Blog Syn
I've got a couple of other papers concerning amide synthesis. They look way too good to be true. In ...
1-3-2013 at 11:33
by: Rich_Insane
Voltaic cell question

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This one. And learn what Ohm's law really states which is that I(t) and V(t) are directly ...
25-2-2013 at 09:03
by: Rich_Insane
Voltaic cell question
Ah, yea, the reason I didn't want to use a load was that I wanted to get an idea of current discharg ...
24-2-2013 at 20:42
by: Rich_Insane
Voltaic cell question
I am using relatively high-end equipment -- Though I still think they were intended for higher poten ...
24-2-2013 at 12:46
by: Rich_Insane
Voltaic cell question
So say you've built a "battery" that discharges current and exerts an electrical potential. The curr ...
23-2-2013 at 21:57
by: Rich_Insane
Blog Syn
Very interesting. There's a whole bunch of papers I can think of that have given me practically usel ...
21-2-2013 at 18:29
by: Rich_Insane
Growing Microbes in a beaker
I used to work in a micro lab -- I can agree that interesting microbes will grow in ANYTHING, especi ...
21-2-2013 at 18:26
by: Rich_Insane
Ether substitutes for this application
I would've much preferred gassing the HCl salt out of xylene or the like, but I do not have the fund ...
17-2-2013 at 22:45
by: Rich_Insane
Ether substitutes for this application
Well, I know the amine (hydrochloride) is listed as "slightly soluble" in acetone (no quantitative d ...
17-2-2013 at 14:50
by: Rich_Insane
Ether substitutes for this application
So there's a method of isolating amine HCl salts as so:

1) Free amine is dissolved in isopropyl a ...
17-2-2013 at 12:13
by: Rich_Insane
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