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No experience with fractional distillation. help me decide what column to buy?
[rquote=628915&tid=154669&author=SWIM]Distillation is always harder than people think.

Bu ...
2-1-2020 at 15:23
by: Cou
No experience with fractional distillation. help me decide what column to buy?
I don't know if I was using wrong technique, but I recently tried out a 200 mm vigreux column at my ...
1-1-2020 at 21:50
by: Cou
I quit using cannabis to be a safer chemist.
Oh Science, you know who the MOST annoying type of marijuana user is?

Privileged first world whit ...
27-12-2019 at 20:54
by: Cou
I quit using cannabis to be a safer chemist.
When I smoke marijuana, it makes me think humans are gross. never again
27-12-2019 at 04:09
by: Cou
How would you continue a chemistry hobby, if you had to move into an unsuitable living space?
[rquote=628589&tid=154631&author=Sulaiman]Probably researching clandestine lab setups is a g ...
26-12-2019 at 00:57
by: Cou
How would you continue a chemistry hobby, if you had to move into an unsuitable living space?
[rquote=628583&tid=154631&author=draculic acid69]Chemistry can be performed on a balcony as ...
25-12-2019 at 22:59
by: Cou
How would you continue a chemistry hobby, if you had to move into an unsuitable living space?
Some metroplexes, such as mine, have makerspaces with common chemistry labs
25-12-2019 at 10:47
by: Cou
How would you continue a chemistry hobby, if you had to move into an unsuitable living space?
e.g. if you move into an apartment, or a suburban home.

Currently i can do amateur chemistry beca ...
25-12-2019 at 00:09
by: Cou
Red Phosphorus Source
If you buy 10 of these, install trapdoors in front of your front door to trap the incoming no-knock ...
19-12-2019 at 14:46
by: Cou
Using conc H2SO4 + NaCl to chlorinate alcohols?
[rquote=628054&tid=154582&author=Pumukli]It will work, (Lucas' reagent.)

What won't work ...
19-12-2019 at 14:33
by: Cou
(success) Preparation of isopropyl salicylate fragrant ester
I let some coworkers smell it, and one of them commented that it smells somewhat like latex in bounc ...
18-12-2019 at 21:56
by: Cou
(success) Preparation of isopropyl salicylate fragrant ester
[rquote=628197&tid=154584&author=RedDwarf]What do you use to print/prepare your labels Cou? ...
18-12-2019 at 18:07
by: Cou
(success) Preparation of isopropyl salicylate fragrant ester
I already keep a collection of fragrant compounds, and this is my 3rd one

I have:

Methyl salic ...
18-12-2019 at 14:49
by: Cou
(success) Preparation of isopropyl salicylate fragrant ester
I successfully purified the ester by simple distillation. It smells green, vegetable-like, herbal

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18-12-2019 at 14:30
by: Cou
(success) Preparation of isopropyl salicylate fragrant ester
It seems that isopropyl alcohol is unusually soluble in isopropyl salicylate, because even with 2 w ...
17-12-2019 at 17:24
by: Cou
(success) Preparation of isopropyl salicylate fragrant ester
it's cloudy and slightly yellow, but not gonna distill it because it's such a small volume that i ri ...
16-12-2019 at 14:06
by: Cou
(success) Preparation of isopropyl salicylate fragrant ester
Reference: doug's lab methyl salicylate video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrfHS4DRoM


To a ...
16-12-2019 at 13:11
by: Cou
Crap from "attempt to make isopropyl salicylate, something interesting happened"
Sh*t my workup failed. Could not get any layers to form. I might try again with a 0.4 molar ratio of ...
15-12-2019 at 13:15
by: Cou
Crap from "attempt to make isopropyl salicylate, something interesting happened"
Total volume of the reaction is about 25 mL. I added 25 mL saturated sodium bicarbonate and unfortun ...
15-12-2019 at 12:22
by: Cou
Crap from "attempt to make isopropyl salicylate, something interesting happened"
Just finished reflux. 25 mL of isopropyl alcohol, 7.3 grams of salicylic acid, and 0.5 mL of sulfuri ...
15-12-2019 at 01:09
by: Cou
Crap from "attempt to make isopropyl salicylate, something interesting happened"
[rquote=627992&tid=154569&author=G-Coupled]Cool, thanks. :)

Ether's one of those oh-so-ha ...
15-12-2019 at 00:41
by: Cou
List of odor descriptions from The Good Scents Company for every 5 carbon alcohol isomer
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14-12-2019 at 23:21
by: Cou
Crap from "attempt to make isopropyl salicylate, something interesting happened"
[rquote=627986&tid=154569&author=G-Coupled][rquote=627981&tid=154569&author=DavidJR] ...
14-12-2019 at 21:58
by: Cou
Crap from "attempt to make isopropyl salicylate, something interesting happened"
[rquote=627930&tid=154569&author=Pumukli]Does propene smell like that? I was under the impre ...
14-12-2019 at 19:43
by: Cou
Crap from "attempt to make isopropyl salicylate, something interesting happened"
I'm going to try it again with a much smaller amount of sulfuric acid, perhaps a mole ratio of 0.07: ...
14-12-2019 at 19:38
by: Cou
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