Helpme - 25-5-2007 at 11:23
Does anyone know how adding Acetone decomposes the excess hypochlorite after a treatment of sodium hypochlorite solution?
woelen - 25-5-2007 at 11:46
Do an internet search on the "haloform" reaction. Chloroform is formed at high pH. At much lower pH, chloroacetone (causes strong tear production in
the eyes) is formed.
Helpme - 25-5-2007 at 12:05
I see if you do a Haloform reaction, (using sodium hypochlorite as the source of both base and chlorine?) you get a carboxyllic acid and CCl3-, or
RCOO- and chloroform, but then when you add acetone, after the chloroform is expelled, how does the acetone destroy the exess hypochlorite?
Helpme - 25-5-2007 at 12:16
Oh, the acetone and the NaOCl go through another Haloform reaction?
Helpme - 25-5-2007 at 12:24
So you get propanoic acid and chloroform again? Where did the -OH come from to make the acid?
Nerro - 25-5-2007 at 12:36
http://www.organic-chemistry.org/namedreactions/haloform-rea...
Google is your friend, UTFSE! duh...
Sauron - 25-5-2007 at 19:41
How about DETRITUS?
There's an entire forum library for answers to basic questios like the mechanism of the haloform reaction.
Read Gattermann, read Vogel, read Cohen.