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Drying ether for Grignard
Interesting - I didn't know you could chlorinate toluene that easily. I'm also surprised you had goo ... |
29-8-2016 at 18:40
by: Stibnut |
Drying ether for Grignard
I'm going to be doing my first Grignard pretty soon - I made some methyl iodide over the weekend and ... |
29-8-2016 at 09:09
by: Stibnut |
Keeping bromine safely contained
Thanks for the answers. From what I can tell it sounds like I'll be fine just sticking it in the fri ... |
22-7-2016 at 09:30
by: Stibnut |
Keeping bromine safely contained
I've started playing around with bromine. I've made weak bromine water solutions but I wanted someth ... |
21-7-2016 at 16:24
by: Stibnut |
Alcohol for Birch reduction
Yep, I realized that too. I got myself some 190 proof Everclear and am drying about 150 ml of it wit ... |
18-6-2016 at 22:29
by: Stibnut |
Alcohol for Birch reduction
Right, I completely forgot that I could just dry out most of the remaining 5% water with a desiccant ... |
14-6-2016 at 22:39
by: Stibnut |
Alcohol for Birch reduction
I got ahold of a couple of fairly inexpensive pressure tubes capable of 150 psi, and I've distilled ... |
14-6-2016 at 17:34
by: Stibnut |
Iodoform problem
Turns out it works very well if you just reverse the order of the acetone and the hypochlorite. When ... |
30-4-2016 at 22:23
by: Stibnut |
Iodoform problem
I'll make a more quantitative post on what I did.
I dissolved 20.0 g KI into 26 mL of distilled w ... |
24-4-2016 at 10:55
by: Stibnut |
Iodoform problem
I've been playing around with the haloform reaction. Obviously the basic synthesis of chloroform wit ... |
23-4-2016 at 21:31
by: Stibnut |
Oxidation of tertiary alcohol by KMnO4
Good call! The KMnO4 solution was pH 5.2, according to my $13 Chinese-made pH meter. I just put in s ... |
7-4-2016 at 19:00
by: Stibnut |
Oxidation of tertiary alcohol by KMnO4
I recently obtained some 2-methyl-2-butanol (aka tert-amyl alcohol), and I tried adding some potassi ... |
5-4-2016 at 11:04
by: Stibnut |
Dissolution of tungsten in H2O2
[rquote=441765&tid=65593&author=blogfast25]
What do you plan doing with it?[/rquote]
W ... |
13-3-2016 at 19:45
by: Stibnut |
Dissolution of tungsten in H2O2
Actually I was wondering what happened to the tungsten - is it dissolved as the tungstate or as some ... |
13-3-2016 at 16:57
by: Stibnut |
Dissolution of tungsten in H2O2
I found some 4% ThO2 welding rods online and I've been dissolving them in 20% H2O2 to extract the Th ... |
13-3-2016 at 15:15
by: Stibnut |
What to do with heavy water and barium deuteroxide
[rquote=438963&tid=65322&author=Ozone]It's pH dependant:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1 ... |
15-2-2016 at 08:20
by: Stibnut |
What to do with heavy water and barium deuteroxide
Any NH or OH will do? So if, for instance, I were to dilute 30% H2O2 to 3% in D2O, the resulting H2O ... |
14-2-2016 at 20:28
by: Stibnut |
What to do with heavy water and barium deuteroxide
I recently acquired 40 g of D2O, and I'd like to play around with isotope effects, observing how rea ... |
14-2-2016 at 19:29
by: Stibnut |
