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Ibuprofen - Methyl ester and hydroxamic acid derivatives
Thanks very much for this. We're looking at doing some reactions with ibuprofen as well, but this is ...
1-3-2016 at 17:17
by: chemplayer..
Synthesis of sodium cyanide from urine
Very topical - we've just been doing some chemistry that was inspired after a hard night on BBQ chic ...
29-2-2016 at 03:45
by: chemplayer..
Schmidt reaction - advice on solvents
Yeah our problem is that glassware/equipment we can import but chemicals are damn near impossible du ...
27-2-2016 at 20:32
by: chemplayer..
H2O2 + KI + HCl = unexpected reaction
A few things could be getting in the way of your desired reaction:

1. Iodine dissolves fairly rea ...
26-2-2016 at 23:31
by: chemplayer..
Schmidt reaction - advice on solvents
Actually we have a bit of PCl3 and we could in theory use this to convert to the acid chloride, but ...
26-2-2016 at 23:00
by: chemplayer..
Schmidt reaction - advice on solvents
Thankyou. Ok we'll do a lot more reading now.

Still a bit nervous about using a chlorinated solve ...
26-2-2016 at 06:38
by: chemplayer..
Schmidt reaction - advice on solvents
Wow it's very honouring that you think we might be doing something commercial with the answer! But n ...
26-2-2016 at 03:47
by: chemplayer..
Schmidt reaction - advice on solvents
We want to try a Schmidt reaction starting with an alkyl carboxylic acid and converting to an interm ...
25-2-2016 at 18:21
by: chemplayer..
What to do with a barrel of bleach
Can't find a reference but from practise we know that mixing hypochlorite and manganese sulfate give ...
21-2-2016 at 18:34
by: chemplayer..
List some BAD chemistry YouTube videos
Statistically our observation is:

0.5-1% of views translate into subscribers (provided you post r ...
20-2-2016 at 20:50
by: chemplayer..
lab art
Beautiful.
20-2-2016 at 20:23
by: chemplayer..
Amino acid synthesis
If you can start from a halo-acid then there are various options to convert this to a primary amine ...
20-2-2016 at 06:34
by: chemplayer..
What to do with a barrel of bleach
Some ideas which might lend themselves to 'industrial scaling':

1. Hydrazine sulfate from bleach/ ...
20-2-2016 at 04:19
by: chemplayer..
Grignard successes and failures
Sorry, it wasn't really meant to be a comparison. The point is that different compounds react very d ...
18-2-2016 at 22:05
by: chemplayer..
Grignard successes and failures
Good and important topic.

We've done a few Grignard reactions now and learned the hard way. Our m ...
18-2-2016 at 19:06
by: chemplayer..
synthesis of methyl iodide from methanol, HCl and sodium iodide?
KI in methanol and HCl. That's also very interesting and worth a try.

Does anyone think that plai ...
14-2-2016 at 03:54
by: chemplayer..
synthesis of methyl iodide from methanol, HCl and sodium iodide?
That's a fair comment AvBaeyer. The problem with the methyl iodide one is going to be that if it tak ...
13-2-2016 at 23:08
by: chemplayer..
synthesis of methyl iodide from methanol, HCl and sodium iodide?
Yes we were surprised the yield was so good (65%).

We'd played around with AlCl3 to see if it wou ...
13-2-2016 at 18:37
by: chemplayer..
synthesis of methyl iodide from methanol, HCl and sodium iodide?
EtI is a nightmare. It seems to be a lot less stable than MeI and turns yellow in a week and brown i ...
13-2-2016 at 16:42
by: chemplayer..
buying from China
Actually I'll make one observation about Chinese manufactured products - if you're looking for a goo ...
13-2-2016 at 16:36
by: chemplayer..
synthesis of methyl iodide from methanol, HCl and sodium iodide?
Another option if you have elemental iodine but no red phosphorus is to use aluminium foil instead!
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12-2-2016 at 23:21
by: chemplayer..
buying from China
t-Butanol ordered... n-Butanol turned up.
Sodium bromide ordered... sodium bromate turned up.
Pota ...
12-2-2016 at 22:56
by: chemplayer..
Whats the most dangerous chemical you've ever synthesized?
Cyanogen iodide and then attempting to isolate it by vacuum fractionally distilling a solution of it ...
12-2-2016 at 22:50
by: chemplayer..

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