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Extraction of potassium chlorate from old weedkiller
I recently found two old and partly used tubs of sodium chlorate weedkiller of unknown vintage in th ...
12-6-2018 at 14:16
by: Boffis
Azeotropic dehydration of oxalic acid with toluene
Excellant bit of work and nice write-up Texium.

I have often wondered whether you could use tolue ...
7-6-2018 at 11:40
by: Boffis
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
@Magpie; Why not? Any actual technical reason or just a gut hunch? As I say the reaction between aze ...
3-6-2018 at 12:28
by: Boffis
Phenylpropanones (P2P) from anilines
@Davic; which procedure? there are about 22 papers in issue 6. Can you give us a clue, like maybe a ...
3-6-2018 at 11:14
by: Boffis
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
@ Magpie; Is it necessary to heat the suspension of calcium oxide in the alcohol? Could I simply lea ...
3-6-2018 at 03:27
by: Boffis
Nitroguanylurea
Well the preparation of nitroguanylurea from guanylurea nitrate seems to have worked succesfully wit ...
1-6-2018 at 14:12
by: Boffis
Nitroguanylurea
I have just carried out the preparation of nitroguanylurea from guanylurea nitrate using basically t ...
31-5-2018 at 02:13
by: Boffis
Synthesis of Isobutyl Nitrite (88.2% Yield) from Isobutyl Alcohol and Nitrous Acid formed in Situte
Alkyl nitrites are very usefull reagent in organic synthesis. For instance they react with reactive ...
29-5-2018 at 02:30
by: Boffis
Competition: Idoform (or iodoform even)
On the subject of dildomethane, I think there would be more of a competition in the reduction of iod ...
25-5-2018 at 01:07
by: Boffis
Decarboxylation of threonine or isoleucine for potentially useful solvent
Hm, seems like a reasonalbe idea and there is plenty of information about decarboxylation of amino a ...
25-5-2018 at 00:35
by: Boffis
Weird side product when making copper acetate
I think DraconicAcid is correct. I have prepared a lot of copper, nickel, cobalt etc acetates and th ...
23-5-2018 at 04:57
by: Boffis
Preparation of Succinic Acid
Well, I worked up the reaction product; lots of cyanuric acid filtered off. Then I evaporated the fi ...
21-5-2018 at 14:08
by: Boffis
Interesting Chloroform Preparation from Citric Acid
@clearly_not_atara, that's interesting as it certainly described what I saw when I tried this reacti ...
21-5-2018 at 12:04
by: Boffis
Interesting Chloroform Preparation from Citric Acid
Interestingly I have observed a similar reaction while trying to oxidize malic acid to malonic acid ...
21-5-2018 at 08:33
by: Boffis
Pretty Pictures (2)
@ Supersonic, have you tried strontium formate? I believe the crystals are the dihydrate but they gr ...
17-5-2018 at 07:50
by: Boffis
Preparation of Succinic Acid
@Magpie, yes I have seen your malonic acid post and good work it is too. But if you read the thread ...
16-5-2018 at 05:03
by: Boffis
Preparation of Succinic Acid
I have made some further experiements into the oxidation of butanediol to succinic acid.

Firstly ...
15-5-2018 at 13:22
by: Boffis
Sodium Nitroprusside Synthesis
Woohoo, that's a while back but most probably either:

Cyanogen Compounds, Their chemistry, detect ...
10-5-2018 at 12:24
by: Boffis
OTC source of thiocyanates or ferrocyanides?
All the data you need is in (for the nth time I quote this reference) "Cyanogen compounds, Their che ...
5-5-2018 at 11:22
by: Boffis
Dihydrazine Sulfate(H10N4O4S)
@Vsepr_void, the compound prepared in the various youtube videos and the various method described on ...
5-5-2018 at 02:41
by: Boffis
Metal Complex Reaction Equations
I am not sure I quite understand your problem. The making of the two separate solutions do not invol ...
5-5-2018 at 02:27
by: Boffis
amino acid + O² = a-nitro acid + formaldehyde - CO² = nitroalkene
I concur with Melgar; I did find a paper specifically about the oxidation of alpha-amino acids to th ...
4-5-2018 at 03:49
by: Boffis
Cupric Ferrocyanide-Ammonia Complex
@Vsepr_void; why not just add sodium ferrocyanide solution to copper chloride solution in appropriat ...
1-5-2018 at 10:26
by: Boffis
Best organic compounds for crystallization
How about xylitol, it is available cheap and crystallises into large crystals with care. UTSE for xy ...
21-4-2018 at 06:59
by: Boffis
OTC source of thiocyanates or ferrocyanides?
If you are going to try from scratch here are a couple of references that you might find useful. The ...
19-4-2018 at 04:07
by: Boffis
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