An interesting experiment hence would be addition of phorone to dilute HCl. Does it indeed react forming a chlorinated compound? The experiment will
tell this. I agree with you, I think it does not get chlorinated by HCl.
Addition of H2O2 (without traces of Fe) and addition of H2O2 with Fe-ions added can be an interesing test. Do this with another acid than HCl, use
dilute reagent grade H2SO4, which certainly is free of iron. Repeat the experiment with intentionally some iron added. The observations of such
experiments will tell you more.
The main challenge for all these experiments will be to get phorone in a pure form. I think that will be hard, but here some organic chemist may be
helpful as well.
Altogether this may be interesting organic chemistry, related to acetone peroxide, but not in a k3wl/b4ng/boom setting. Many people made AP and some
of them lost fingers or worse, but I have never seen a nice interesting scientific treatment of the chemistry behind this compound. This chemistry is
interesting, and unfortunately this is spoiled by the k3wl type of persons who abuse this compound (or more likely: family of related compounds).
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