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[*] posted on 22-4-2006 at 19:31


12AX7, I'm ashamed to admit I don't know what that would form. I looked into the matter on google and I gather that it would form a crazy super acid. Am I correct? Sounds like something nice and safe for the kids to do in the kitchen!
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[*] posted on 22-4-2006 at 22:44


Ya- SbF5 and AsF5 are uber lewis acids, or whatever, basically they'd rather be AsF3 or SbF3, so you can imagine the oxidizing potential available. HSO3F (fluorosulfonic acid) just adds to the suspense, as it's already quite a strong acid. Wikipedia "superacid" entry has more detail than I shall go into, being off topic :P

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[*] posted on 11-5-2006 at 14:21


I have a Kilo of Imidazole...

I have been thinking about looking up to see if diazo chemistry will work well with a secondary amine.
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[*] posted on 11-5-2006 at 17:28


Imidazole is a great buffer, around pH 7, and doesn't have the problems associated with Tris and so on.
Plus, it is fantastic for chelating Ni2+ ions (and probably others) - in fact it is used to elute histidine-linked peptides/proteins from a Ni2+ chelate column.
Also, I am sure it makes some interesting salts with HClO4, HNO3, etc.

Are there recorded instances of where a secondary amine works for diazotation? That'd be new to me....




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[*] posted on 12-5-2006 at 09:47


for Imidazole I found several different organometallic compounds.
Involving Cu, Co, Cr,Fe and Ag.

I will probably try making the perchlorate with some perchoric acid.
I have found some references to doing this neutralization in alchol.

The silver and copper look more promising for an energetic compound. Perhaps I can get the perchlorate to complex with some ammonium persulfate with added ammonia in the presence of copper.

I will probably try this tonight :D

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[*] posted on 13-5-2006 at 21:28


Para-amino benzoic acid... Besides its commerical use as a sunscreen/nutrient could this be used as a subsitute for benzoic acid in whistling rockets?
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[*] posted on 15-5-2006 at 15:36


Powdered tungsten.....



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[*] posted on 15-5-2006 at 19:03


I wish I had tungsten.

I have some Cocamide.
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[*] posted on 16-5-2006 at 14:42


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Powdered tungsten.....

Dissolve this in 10% H2O2 and use the resulting solution of WO3 (or H2WO4) for interesting aqueous chemistry experiments. When you add the metal to an excess amount of 10% H2O2, then in a night time it has dissolved. Only use small amounts at a time, otherwise you may have a runaway, resulting in decomposition of all H2O2 and foaming of the liquid.




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[*] posted on 16-5-2006 at 14:43


I have tirone and pyrogallol red. I know these are indicators, but for what? What interesting things I can do with these?



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[*] posted on 16-5-2006 at 17:30


Was not with tungsten, but with tungsten hexachloride, that I made tungsten hexaphenoxide tonight. From Brauer. The tungsten hexachloride I used was really old and hydrolysed in parts, so I did not attempt purification as tungsten oxide would be contaminating.

Also learned that I really really hate the smell of phenol, especially in my basement.

EDIT: Wolean, just 10% peroxide? No acid?

EDIT: Oh thats weird...the hexaphenoxide is bright red, the isopropoxide which I just made is blue...



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[*] posted on 17-5-2006 at 00:30


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I have tirone and pyrogallol red. I know these are indicators, but for what? What interesting things I can do with these?


http://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/croweacinald...

Here is some uses for pyrogallol.
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[*] posted on 18-5-2006 at 10:41


???

Pyrogallol red is a dye!

not the same as pyrogallol!




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[*] posted on 19-5-2006 at 10:06


Ups, sorry. Did not noticed. My fault.
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[*] posted on 19-5-2006 at 13:29


Back to imidazole. To purify, it sublimes under vac.

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[*] posted on 19-5-2006 at 15:12


Quote:
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Para-amino benzoic acid... Besides its commerical use as a sunscreen/nutrient could this be used as a subsitute for benzoic acid in whistling rockets?


Novocaine, that stuff dentists numb your mouth with. There is a thread in this forum about the synth.
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[*] posted on 20-5-2006 at 14:37


Quote:
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EDIT: Wolean, just 10% peroxide? No acid?

Indeed, just peroxide, no acid. The resulting solution, however, becomes somewhat acidic (H2WO4 is an acid).




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[*] posted on 20-5-2006 at 15:16


I must admit, I had my doubts that it would work, but it did.
Also, tungsten hexachloride is fun stuff, if you can get it. From my recent experiments with it it seems like it reacts with alcohols to form blue compounds, and with phenols to make red compounds. I may have discovered its use as in indicator. All the products are surprisingly resistant to hydrolysis. The ethoxide has been under water for 4 days now, and there is very little tungsten oxide floating around(its yellow).




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[*] posted on 26-5-2006 at 14:47


I can get some cool cyclics like cyclopropylamine and cyclobutanecarboxylic acid, anything interesting that can be done with them?

I don't know anything about potenially illict uses of them, so if they are used in drugs I will not get them. So let me know if they are!

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[*] posted on 10-3-2007 at 05:13


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I have about 300 lbs of Guanidine hydrochloride I have been trying to find a good use for.
Anyone comes up with a good idea for a useful synth... I'll send you some of it.

Maybe an aminoguanidine something...


So , did you ever try a double decomposition to convert
the hydrochloride to the nitrate , perhaps by using
NH4NO3 , or NaNO3 solution , mixed with a solution
of the guanidine hydrochloride ?

If there is an easy conversion to the nitrate , then that
can easily be converted to nitroguanidine by dissolving
the nitrate in cold concentrated H2SO4 , and then dumping
the milky solution over a large excess of crushed ice .
The nitroguanidine can be recrystallized from boiling water .

Nitroguanidine can be reacted with hydrazine sulfate to
form nitroaminoguanidine , which forms heavy metal salts
which are initiators .

Nitroguanidine also can be reduced to aminoguanidine by
powdered zinc and ammonium sulfate , or by electrolytic reduction . The aminoguanidine can be diazotized with sodium nitrite to guanyl azide and isolated as the picrate ....which is an effective base charge for detonators .

Or the aminoguanidine may be converted to tetracene ,
or 5-aminotetrazole by varying the pH at which the diazotization is performed .

From these various intermediates are routes to many different energetic tetrazoles .
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[*] posted on 10-3-2007 at 06:33


You can't go by sciencelab prices, they are outrageous for anything and everything and I am sure they are just a repack operation. If you want reference prices use Aldrich, Merck or Acros.

Also significant are whether or not container has been opened, how it has been stored, how old it might be, etc. Second hand reagents under the best of conditions do not hold their value particularly well as some compounds have a limited shelf life, you clearly cannot guarantee the condition of the contents, you probably cannot even assay them. Frankly if you called your local/state govt they's make you pay for them to haul them away to a hazmat disposal site. It's a dead albatross you have there. Not a gold mine. 300 lbs guanidine hcl but you aren't interested in explosives?
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[*] posted on 10-3-2007 at 06:39


There's always eBay if it's not a forbidden material ....

another one of those " as is " listings .
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[*] posted on 3-4-2007 at 14:42


Quote:
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I have about 300 lbs of Guanidine hydrochloride I have been trying to find a good use for.
Anyone comes up with a good idea for a useful synth... I'll send you some of it.

Maybe an aminoguanidine something...


Aminoguanidine huh? Okay ...you got it :D

You may be able to convert the guanidine hydrochloride
via reaction with hydrazine ( in situ from the sulfate) to aminoguanidine . So far as I know the specifics for
this are unpublished and unconfirmed but this seems plausible and would be a worthy experiment .

It seems likely that aminoguanidine bicarbonate could be made and isloated from the reaction mixture of *any* soluble guanidine salt with hydrazine sulfate having been digested for a time at the appropriate pH , then treated with CO2 or sodium bicarbonate .

See the following thread ,

https://sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=8144&...

about two thirds the way down the page , see my post
" A possible simplified method for aminoguanidine "

Di and triaminoguanidine compounds should be possible by increasing the amount of hydrazine sulfate proportionally .
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[*] posted on 9-12-2007 at 12:09


how to prepare WCl6 in Lab!!?



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Quote: Originally posted by ordenblitz  
I have about 300 lbs of Guanidine hydrochloride I have been trying to find a good use for.
Anyone comes up with a good idea for a useful synth... I'll send you some of it.

Maybe an aminoguanidine something...


How about guanidine perchlorate ?

If that pallet is still collecting dust you could convert some of it to guanidine perchlorate. Get an equimolar solution of NH4ClO4 going at a boil, and slowly stream in an equimolar amount of NaOH with the loss of ammonia converting to a residual sodium perchlorate solution. Stream in your Guanidine Hydrochloride with stirring, and you should get guanidine perchlorate precipitating as crystals from the residual sodium chloride.
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