BILLBUILDS - 3-3-2017 at 12:31
so yesterday i went to find my dad has thrown out about 25L of my basic solvents and i was wanting to do the NaBr/H2SO4 method of making bromomethane.
will this method still work with methylated spirits which i still have 6L of?
JnPS - 3-3-2017 at 12:40
Aren't methylated spirits a mixture of methanol/ethanol? You'd get bromoethane, but also methyl bromide. You'd need a method to separate MeBr from
EtBr. Not to mention any potential side reactions with whatever else is in the methylated spirits...
Edit- misread OP's question, but whichever the desired alkyl bromide is, the other one would also be produced
[Edited on 3-3-2017 by JnPS]