Quote: Originally posted by Texium (zts16)  | If you don't mind, could you be specific about some of the ones that are most glaringly wrong in your opinion?
I've only been doing organic synthesis in a somewhat professional capacity for about a year. I'm probably heavily influenced by the specific things
that I have been working on, so you clearly have a much more complete picture than I do. |
It really depends on how you wish to define "essential". I take that to mean the bare minimum you need to buy, excluding stuff you can easily
make yourself. For example, I would not include sodium carbonate in such a list, because the anhydrous solid can be made easily from sodium
bicarbonate, and alternatively by "neutralisation" of bicarbonate with hydroxide (in solution).
Conversely, NaBH4 is certainly essential - It is a very versatile reagent that can be tuned using additives, or converted to other useful species
ex-situ. As such, it can be used to perform most reductions required by an organic chemist. Those not effected by NaBH4 or a related species
will usually be compliant under dissolving metal conditions.
There are many things on your list that are substrates for specific reactions that you may have done, or seen done on Sciencemadness, but which
otherwise are not used all that much in "the real world". Examples include aniline, anthranilic acid, acetylsalicylic acid, tetrachloroethylene etc.
These should be omitted as they are not essential per se, and are really dependent on what chemistry you are pursuing (at a given point in time). That
is not to say you cannot do useful things with them (and this forum is full of examples of that), but that they are not themselves required for a
functioning organic laboratory as you propose. |
. Below I list my atual chemical reagents stuff. All
of them stored inside a weel exhausted and refreshed aparted room, back the LAB, at cemented shelfs, in the dark and monitored by IP camera. Don't
need to say all security rules to store chemicals were followed.