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[*] posted on 6-8-2005 at 11:40
Methyl Iodide


Is there anyway to extract Methyl Iodide from seaweed?
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[*] posted on 6-8-2005 at 11:56


Although you might be able to pull off a one pot synthesis from seaweed to methyl iodide the best method would probably be to treat a slurry of dried sea weed with some kind of oxidizing agent then clean the iodine and treat that in the normal manner to make methyl iodide.

There is a thread here on iodine extraction and a different thread on the preparation of methyl iodide with some searching both can be found easily.

Most of the methods to make methyl iodide that I know of work from some iodine salt, you could recover your iodine and treat with KOH or NaOH to get your salt to start off that procedure.

Note that the thread on ethyl iodide is fairly comprehensive and a good read.

[Edited on 8/6/2005 by BromicAcid]




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[*] posted on 11-8-2005 at 22:48


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