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1,4-naphtoquinone by naphtalene oxidation with dichromate
Hi Fery, have you tried using methanol or ethanol diluted with a little water, I have found that som ...
15-2-2021 at 13:27
by: Boffis
Things to do with Ethyl Formate
[rquote=652765&tid=156492&author=clearly_not_atara]I would consider reduction -- Mg should r ...
15-2-2021 at 05:21
by: Boffis
1,4-naphtoquinone by naphtalene oxidation with dichromate
Hi Fery, did you get any further with the purification of your naphthoquinone? I would also be inter ...
15-2-2021 at 02:57
by: Boffis
NiCl2 Weirdness
WTF! I don't think I have ever read such a ridiculously over engineered method to achieve anything i ...
14-2-2021 at 06:20
by: Boffis
The chemistry of Sorbic acid
I have now worked up the products from my attempts at Diels Alder condensations between p-benzoquino ...
13-2-2021 at 05:59
by: Boffis
Pyrollidine by 1,4 dibromobutane
@mr_bovinejony; do you have a link to the SM thread or the paper? I wonder if you could try this wit ...
12-2-2021 at 10:55
by: Boffis
Synthesis of malonic acid
Interesting. Many years ago I did a lot of similar work oxidizing particularly malic acid with H2O2 ...
9-2-2021 at 06:37
by: Boffis
The purification of old p-Benzoquinone
Benzoquinone is not completely stable and slowly, over time, turns dark green and eventually black. ...
8-2-2021 at 13:49
by: Boffis
Acetic Anhydride from Zinc Acetate?
Interesting work Peaches! Didn't you use a condenser/receiver beyond the stillhead? I am surprised t ...
6-2-2021 at 04:02
by: Boffis
Can you make bromine in the separatory funnel?
Yes, this is my standard method if I don't need dry bromine, e.g. if I am working in an aqueous envi ...
4-2-2021 at 14:49
by: Boffis
A possible route to acenaphthalone
I am looking at preparing acenaphthalone. It can be prepared from both acenaphthene (C12H10) and ace ...
1-2-2021 at 12:06
by: Boffis
Nitration and acetone
The reaction of fuming nitric acid with organic materials is complex and the results very diverse. T ...
31-1-2021 at 04:48
by: Boffis
The chemistry of Sorbic acid
Hi UC235, I must admit I couldn't see how you would get malondialdehyde anyway. Attach at the double ...
28-1-2021 at 13:16
by: Boffis
Extract BOTH nitrogens from urea?
If you want it to stop at cyanate you need less alkali.
28-1-2021 at 05:37
by: Boffis
The chemistry of Sorbic acid
Well I have had a go at a Diels-Alder type condensation between recrystallized p-benzoquinone and so ...
26-1-2021 at 15:28
by: Boffis
chloral hydrate synthesis
Nice work Velzee! Good to see sometime else trying out some of the old claims.

Roughly how much o ...
24-1-2021 at 04:41
by: Boffis
Soxhlet uses for extracting compounds?
I have just run a soxhlet extraction of old dark green benzoquinone. I discovered something I hadn't ...
23-1-2021 at 07:10
by: Boffis
Black Pepper Extraction results!
Does anyone know why most people use black pepper instead of white in spite of the fact that white p ...
23-1-2021 at 05:02
by: Boffis
manganese triacetate synthesis
I have never made this compound but I seem to remember seeing a preparation that oxidise manganese a ...
22-1-2021 at 11:20
by: Boffis
Things to do with Ethyl Formate
Interesting find, I hadn't thought about Claisen type reactions clearly another one to try. I'm stil ...
22-1-2021 at 11:12
by: Boffis
Derivatising p-dichlorobenzene through its nitro compound
Success, I steam distilled part of the original brown crud, about 9.3g, using an external steam gene ...
22-1-2021 at 11:09
by: Boffis
Separating Benzoquinone from Hydroquinone
I acquired some very old benzoquinone a few years ago and recently I have been purifying it by steam ...
21-1-2021 at 08:32
by: Boffis
Derivatising p-dichlorobenzene through its nitro compound
Hi Pumukli, the steam distilled product is comes over as a pale yellow liquid that solidifies into a ...
21-1-2021 at 05:59
by: Boffis
KFe(CrO4)2 very easy
Is it water soluble, very sparingly soluble or insoluble?
20-1-2021 at 07:58
by: Boffis
Derivatising p-dichlorobenzene through its nitro compound
Well I ran an attempt to reduce 20g of dichlorinitrobenzene to 2,5-dichlloroaniline yesterday. The r ...
20-1-2021 at 07:55
by: Boffis
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