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Extractive Distillation
Just made chloroform via the haloform reaction and did my first simple distillation to purify it.

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20-7-2010 at 14:10
by: rrkss
Making Pentaerythritol in home from easily available chemicals.
The heated CuO catalyst method for oxidation looks promising. I'm not a big fan of dichromates in a ...
20-7-2010 at 06:46
by: rrkss
Has one of our members died?
His last posts here regarded generating phosgene, a highly toxic gas that does cause pulmonary edema ...
16-7-2010 at 11:30
by: rrkss
Seperating Ethanol and 3-methyl-3-pentanol
Reran the reaction, and this time quenched with ammonium sulphate. After the quench no longer relea ...
14-7-2010 at 18:03
by: rrkss
Synthesis of Solid Calcium Hypochlorite
[rquote=182356&tid=14153&author=mewrox99]
All I've seen is a bunch of retards mixing there ...
13-7-2010 at 21:14
by: rrkss
Making a revised 'Anarchist Cookbook'
I don't like this idea at all. Energetics are not something that people who don't have the training ...
10-7-2010 at 21:02
by: rrkss
Bad days in the lab or with glassware?
I just posted that because I prefer to read about and hear personal stories of things that happened ...
8-7-2010 at 22:21
by: rrkss
Bad days in the lab or with glassware?
Wizard, this thread is for personal bad days in the lab. I would prefer if you would create another ...
8-7-2010 at 07:26
by: rrkss
Alcohol burner fuel
Just buy a cheap bottle of denatured alcohol at the hardware store. Water in the ingredients seems ...
6-7-2010 at 03:04
by: rrkss
Interesting benzyl chloride synth I discovered
Thanks Melgar for sharing, now I have another project to consider for my grignard reagent work that ...
29-6-2010 at 12:49
by: rrkss
distillation of acetone - failed
Too little heat input and lack of boiling chips comes to mind.
26-6-2010 at 21:32
by: rrkss
Bad days in the lab or with glassware?
Z man, I just hope you are wearing personal protective gear like safety goggles and a lab coat. I o ...
26-6-2010 at 11:08
by: rrkss
Bad days in the lab or with glassware?
Wow somebody carries a liter of ether in a beaker with open flames in the lab? Strange that somethi ...
25-6-2010 at 11:20
by: rrkss
Dow Corning Vacuum Grease Cleanup
Was experimenting with various solvents I had on hand and surprisingly this stuff is perfectly solub ...
20-6-2010 at 10:16
by: rrkss
Dow Corning Vacuum Grease Cleanup
One of my collegues reccommended Dow Corning OS-2 as a simple solvent to remove silicone grease. Go ...
19-6-2010 at 22:23
by: rrkss
Dow Corning Vacuum Grease Cleanup
Anybody know a good solvent to remove Dow Corning High Vacuum Grease from glass after use?
19-6-2010 at 06:54
by: rrkss
Interesting Spectation
[rquote=180337&tid=14020&author=Barium]Which part of this is organic chemistry?[/rquote]

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18-6-2010 at 20:56
by: rrkss
Distillation adapter choices
Just don't forget to grease your joints before you use vacuum. Otherwise you will have vacuum jump ...
18-6-2010 at 20:52
by: rrkss
Portable Oxygen Concentrators
Is the Nitrogen chemically bound to the lithium or is it more of a zeolite type absorbtion?
16-6-2010 at 14:06
by: rrkss
Distillation adapter choices
I personally use a two piece unit because then the vacuum line does not interfere with rotation of t ...
16-6-2010 at 09:57
by: rrkss
Portable Oxygen Concentrators
Saw an ad on TV for a device called a portable oxygen concentrator that increases the oxygen concent ...
16-6-2010 at 09:56
by: rrkss
Best and worst smelling chemicals?
[rquote=180001&tid=1216&author=mnick12]Woah! be careful about sniffing the ethyl bromide, as ...
14-6-2010 at 19:01
by: rrkss
Best and worst smelling chemicals?
Best:

Ethyl Bromide
Ethyl Acetate
Isoamyl Acetate
Diethyl Malonate

Worst:

SO2
H2S
Diet ...
14-6-2010 at 14:13
by: rrkss
Best Ether for Grignard?
Well unstabilized ether does form peroxides very fast. I have a level of between 0.5 ppm and 1 ppm ...
14-6-2010 at 11:34
by: rrkss
Distillation adapter choices
SWIY obviously does not have any training or knowledge on this matter and definately should not be t ...
14-6-2010 at 11:02
by: rrkss
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