hey all,
Never done an actual chemical reaction on my own, only distillations of good smelling flowers and extractions of medicinals (ginkolides!)
I am interested in making bromoethane, or ethyl bromide via the dehydration reaction with H2SO4 and NaBr.
I figure this has got to be one of the most fundamental chemistry experiments, and gives an extremely useful alkyl halide.
Via youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jn0z5BGpR0
This guy seems pretty thorough, or atleast very helpful. Is he from this site?
Anyways. I looked up the MSDS of Tru-Blu and Leisure Time sodium bromide packs. I'm assuming they are >95% pure, as they only list one ingredient,
but have no indication of concentration, but I'm aware this is not always the case.
Has anyone done this reaction and can vouch for a brand?
PS: if this is already on this site, I can't find it - all that shows up is methyl bromide
[Edited on 23-5-2011 by GreenD] |
