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Catechol preparation
Mea Culpa!

I'm good with making reagents, if they are very expensive, or can't be bought easily.
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26-2-2018 at 17:23
by: zed
What is the point of amateur chemistry?
The point?

Well, to quote my mentor, The Brain: "World Domination!"

https://www.youtube.com/w ...
26-2-2018 at 16:55
by: zed
How do I remove the smell of Benzyl Chloride from skin
Way I recall, it is easier to make it from Benzyl Alcohol.

Nasty stuff. I cry when I think about ...
26-2-2018 at 16:52
by: zed
Would you invest in a stirrer hot plate as a noob, or just start with a regular hot plate?
Stirring plate may be best. I bought a couple used ones (one lot), dirt cheap on e-bay a few years ...
26-2-2018 at 16:47
by: zed
Catechol preparation
Huh?

Thirty-odd dollars per pound, is too expensive?

https://www.amazon.com/Guaifenesin-USP-Po ...
26-2-2018 at 16:35
by: zed
Tales of Nickel Chemists
Nickel?

I got a glassblower buddy, who says Nickel can be bad, very bad!

Claims guys who inhal ...
24-2-2018 at 14:48
by: zed
Cheap refractory materials for insulation, casting and equipment manufacture.
Being a giant, I am generally of the opinion, that bigger is better.

This is decidedly not always ...
17-2-2018 at 14:45
by: zed
Aromatic aldehydes using Gattermann Koch Reaction
Mixed anhydride of Formic/Acetic acid?

Now that, sounds interesting! Which acid is more likely ...
16-2-2018 at 17:50
by: zed
Reduction of substituted 2-phenylnitroethenes to 2-phenylnitroethanes with NaBH4 - Maybe the greatest way to make tar
First try? Don't improvise. Follow instructions exactly. If they say HCl, use HCl.

Hard enough ...
16-2-2018 at 17:44
by: zed
Cheap refractory materials for insulation, casting and equipment manufacture.
I used to be buddies, with an industrial type, manufacturing jeweler. Molding is done as follows.
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14-2-2018 at 16:18
by: zed
Iron powder from hot packs for hands?
No problem with accidentally buying Stainless. Ordinary steel wool is dirt cheap; much cheaper than ...
13-2-2018 at 18:54
by: zed
Aromatic aldehydes using Gattermann Koch Reaction
Umm. What are you going to do with that aldehyde, once you have it?

If it is a waystop to synthe ...
13-2-2018 at 18:35
by: zed
Ammonium Carbonate and Ammonia Vapor ?
Well yeah. Snap your head back, it will.

Used to be called "Smelling Salts". Victorian fainting ...
12-2-2018 at 17:00
by: zed
Inert atmosphere :Vacuum as good as Nitrogen ?
I would keep in mind, that vacuum is an excellent insulator. Heat distribution may not occur normal ...
12-2-2018 at 16:53
by: zed
Iron powder from hot packs for hands?
I been thinking on this lately. Iron powder should be easy to acquire, but the world has turned ups ...
12-2-2018 at 16:38
by: zed
Anyone working with Vycor or quartz glasses?
Umm. My experience with Crystalline Quartz, is that it is very strong, tough, and durable. A ring ...
12-2-2018 at 16:19
by: zed
Aromatic aldehydes using Gattermann Koch Reaction
Ummm. At a big U., you shouldn't have trouble acquiring POCl3, but you might. Ask your mentor, if ...
12-2-2018 at 15:56
by: zed
Aromatic aldehydes using Gattermann Koch Reaction
CO is one of the worst. POCl3, on the other hand, is not too bad.

http://orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?pr ...
11-2-2018 at 15:11
by: zed
Homogeneous catalysts in condensation, charge
Weak acid.

11-2-2018 at 14:17
by: zed
Homogeneous catalysts in condensation, charge
I once attempted to perform that condensation, using NaOH. I exactly executed the Org.Syn. procedur ...
4-2-2018 at 14:25
by: zed
Color of Phenylacetone
Piperonal? A white crystalline solid, of heavenly aroma.

Easily acquired, and fairly inexpensive ...
2-2-2018 at 15:19
by: zed
Synthesis of phenyl-2-ethanol
Nice. Thank you.
31-1-2018 at 15:17
by: zed
What is the bulb in a drying tube for ?
Ummmm. The stuff most of you guys are using, we used to call Microware. Small sizes, expensive, ve ...
31-1-2018 at 15:09
by: zed
What is the bulb in a drying tube for ?
Well, the drying tubes I used to use, usually hung upside down, from a piece of latex tubing, affi ...
30-1-2018 at 19:13
by: zed
1000ml Beakers that i touch explode
Ummm. I see the problem. A quick trip to e-bay, updated me on American/European Borosilicate price ...
30-1-2018 at 14:22
by: zed
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