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6-11-2020 at 00:47
by: Cou
What are some interesting uses for lithium metal
Has anyone ever made organolithiums at home? I daydream about a day when I'm experienced enough in h ...
6-11-2020 at 00:31
by: Cou
Latest chemical order?
500 g bromobenzene
500 mL diethyl carbonate

Hoping I can do some fun grignard reactions at home. ...
5-11-2020 at 23:58
by: Cou
Everyday Chemistry
I just evaporated hexane and boiled off any remaining 1-pentanol from about 30 mL of crude pentyl no ...
5-11-2020 at 23:56
by: Cou
Why is Chemsavers comfortable with shipping chemicals to residential addresses, but sigma/fisher/TCI/etc are not?
My guess is that companies like Chemsavers are essentially retailers, in that they are smaller compa ...
5-11-2020 at 21:02
by: Cou
Preparation of elemental phosphorus
I decided to just buy red phosphorus from chemcraft.su. I need it for regioselective bromination of ...
5-11-2020 at 19:44
by: Cou
Eye-opening lab seizure
Nothing says "sticking it to the man" more than legally keeping a barrel of sodium cyanide in your b ...
5-11-2020 at 18:48
by: Cou
Cumene synthesis idea from 1-phenylethanol (commercially available fragrance compound)
Boiling point of benzene: 80.1 C

Boiling point of cumene: 152 C

Boiling point of 1,3-diisoprop ...
5-11-2020 at 14:08
by: Cou
Choosing an acid catalyst
This isn't about dehydration of alcohols, but acid catalyst is often a choice you have to make in fi ...
5-11-2020 at 00:35
by: Cou
Cumene synthesis idea from 1-phenylethanol (commercially available fragrance compound)
i'd like to try this one day as a project, but i've been so busy with other things that i haven't ev ...
5-11-2020 at 00:29
by: Cou
Eye-opening lab seizure
You need to be a good little boy who goes to college, uses the degree only for getting a job, gets a ...
4-11-2020 at 18:37
by: Cou
Preparation of benzyl cinnamate (a moderate difficulty ester)
Anyone want to run this thru a library to identify the peaks?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16 ...
4-11-2020 at 09:36
by: Cou
Preparation of benzyl cinnamate (a moderate difficulty ester)
Here is the GC-MS spectrum.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/jHRZ55z.png[/img]

The GC peak at 17.3 min ...
3-11-2020 at 18:25
by: Cou
Question (PPM)
For solvents besides water, ppm is just a nickname for mg/L concentrations. I analyze substances by ...
3-11-2020 at 10:12
by: Cou
Amateur route from R-OH to R-Cl
Alkyl chlorides and alkyl bromides are often carcinogenic. Use gloves and a lab coat, a respirator w ...
2-11-2020 at 23:00
by: Cou
allyl alcohol
Allyl alcohol boils at 97 C, and the hexane-water azeotrope boils at 61 C. You might be able to use ...
2-11-2020 at 22:50
by: Cou
Preparation of benzyl cinnamate (a moderate difficulty ester)
[img]https://i.imgur.com/RneDFc1.png[/img]

52 mL of toluene and 0.5 mL of conc. sulfuric acid wer ...
2-11-2020 at 22:10
by: Cou
No one will give me experience, so I will make experience myself, starting from the bottom
Dr. [redacted]:

I think there was a big misunderstanding in the meeting we had on October 3, 2020 ...
2-11-2020 at 14:29
by: Cou
[Meme]Oh so you like amateur chemistry?
I guess this is a meme thread, so here's a meme that's very applicable to practical organic chemistr ...
2-11-2020 at 00:08
by: Cou
https://jupiterfragrances.com is now ready for orders. Buy esters
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1-11-2020 at 18:53
by: Cou
Can I have an account at the SM wiki?
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1-11-2020 at 17:00
by: Cou
Latest chemical order?
100 grams of p-TsOH

I found that while sulfuric acid causes benzyl alcohol to polymerize, forming ...
1-11-2020 at 15:59
by: Cou
https://jupiterfragrances.com is now ready for orders. Buy esters
[rquote=647983&tid=156447&author=B(a)P]Congratulations on getting this up and running Cou, t ...
1-11-2020 at 15:45
by: Cou
Bad days in the lab or with glassware?
Freezer only goes to -17 c.

[Edited on 11-1-2020 by Cou]
1-11-2020 at 12:40
by: Cou
Bad days in the lab or with glassware?
It's too expensive to buy a block of dry ice for just one vacuum distillation, when the rest will su ...
1-11-2020 at 11:14
by: Cou
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