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Alkaline hydrolysis of Nylon
Negative results are still useful, so I report here failure to hydrolyse Nylon with concentrated NaO ...
18-4-2009 at 21:15
by: Paddywhacker
The short questions thread (2)
[rquote=151448&tid=12054&author=manimal]Can I use sodium carbonate or bicarbonate and ammoni ...
18-4-2009 at 17:30
by: Paddywhacker
Post your glassware!
That's all down to technique, which can be optimised. Mayo, Pike & Butcher's book on microscale ...
17-4-2009 at 22:01
by: Paddywhacker
The creation of energy
You are asking to be spoon fed, withiut even telling us what it is that you want to eat.

I would ...
17-4-2009 at 15:08
by: Paddywhacker
Zinc in brass does not react with acids?
Aren't many carburettors made from zinc? Ask a scrap merchant. You can use a drill to make lots of ...
15-4-2009 at 05:00
by: Paddywhacker
Reductive amination and water
[rquote=151122&tid=1938&author=Baphomet]As a follow-up to the last post:

After a week in ...
14-4-2009 at 01:26
by: Paddywhacker
p-dichlorobenzene
Before Christmas, I sealed up 0.1 mole of p-dichlorobenzene (PDCB) in a jar with 0.25 moles of potas ...
12-4-2009 at 17:53
by: Paddywhacker
The synthesis of 1 and 2-naphthols from Napththalene
I am tempted to try this out, as I have been thinking of buying the two naphthols, but don't like th ...
11-4-2009 at 03:46
by: Paddywhacker
extracting Sulphur, Phosphorus and carbon from a dead animal
Turn the corpse into a cloud of plasms with a terrawatt laser and feed that through a big mass spec ...
9-4-2009 at 01:27
by: Paddywhacker
Solvent Free Permanganate Oxidation of Diols
[rquote=150683&tid=11998&author=Saerynide]Hmmm.... If the CuSO4 played no part in the aqueou ...
7-4-2009 at 23:45
by: Paddywhacker
Solvent Free Permanganate Oxidation of Diols
What you performed was an oxidation by permanganate in solution. I would hazard a guess that the Cu ...
7-4-2009 at 14:45
by: Paddywhacker
The short questions thread (1)
Did you have a reasonable excess of isopropyl alcohol?
Not too much water?
Not too high a pH? Ket ...
6-4-2009 at 11:36
by: Paddywhacker
Parrafin
[rquote=150259&tid=11996&author=sparkgap]"Note that when you use unsaturated hydrocarbons su ...
2-4-2009 at 12:21
by: Paddywhacker
Solvent Free Permanganate Oxidation of Diols
I suspect that the water is the source of your problem. With a dry reaction the availability of the ...
1-4-2009 at 15:07
by: Paddywhacker
How could I find the heat of combustion for butane given a butane lighter, metal can, and thermometer?
Is this a homework question?

You need to combust a known quantity of the material and measure the ...
31-3-2009 at 17:38
by: Paddywhacker
Parrafin
I had to give this a go. Heated about 10 ml of oil or wax with about 0.5 g sulphur. I tried Olive ...
31-3-2009 at 17:20
by: Paddywhacker
Glutaric Anhydride Purification
That sounds interesting. Could you post a link to the prep, please.

Your problem looks like pret ...
31-3-2009 at 11:17
by: Paddywhacker
Waterpumps
I second Dann2's suggestion. The problem with small peristaltic pumps is the low flow rate, but you ...
30-3-2009 at 16:10
by: Paddywhacker
Osmium tetroxide
I have seen that a solution of the complex with hexamine is considered safer to handle, and that is ...
29-3-2009 at 20:43
by: Paddywhacker
Osmium tetroxide
I have ordered some of this, costing an arm and a leg at over $260 per gram.

Does anybody have an ...
29-3-2009 at 17:03
by: Paddywhacker
Toxic site contamination
Mercuric oxide should be a vigorous oxidant in a thermite-type reaction. Only useful if you really ...
29-3-2009 at 11:30
by: Paddywhacker
The short questions thread (1)
[rquote=150049&tid=11319&author=dann2]Hello,
Can anyone suggest another indicator, (more ea ...
29-3-2009 at 11:25
by: Paddywhacker
Solvent Free Permanganate Oxidation of Diols
So, what does the oxidation of diols yield, 1,2 diketones or cleavage of the carbon-carbon bond with ...
29-3-2009 at 11:16
by: Paddywhacker
The short questions thread (1)
[rquote=149966&tid=11319&author=User]Well just in case iam not in the possession of a buret ...
27-3-2009 at 11:43
by: Paddywhacker
The short questions thread (1)
[rquote=149918&tid=11319&author=sakshaug007][rquote=149916&tid=11319&author=Jor]
No ...
26-3-2009 at 12:31
by: Paddywhacker
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