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Sodium methyl sulfate

sunil.sharma - 23-2-2019 at 01:31

I am doing methylation using Dimethyl sulfate and getting Sodium methyl sulfate as bi-product. This Sodium methyl sulfate is a big headache as effluent. Someone suggest me that it can be convert back to dimethyl sulfate. Can any one suggest me any effective method to convert sodium methyl sulfate to Dimethyl sulfae.

[Edited on 23-2-2019 by sunil.sharma]

TGSpecialist1 - 28-2-2019 at 01:44

It can be done simply by pyrolysis, at least according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfate#Production

sunil.sharma - 4-3-2019 at 06:23

TGSpecialist1 Thanks for the suggestion. I have explored this option but this is not a practical solution.