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CCl4 and CHCl3 from CH2Cl2
The pseudonymous "Hpffman" writing in Annalen in a paper elsewhere on this forum, stated that the usual procedure for lab prep of CCl4 was to distill
chloroform in a stream of dry Cl2 while illuminating with direct sunlight.
This is recognizable as vapor phase free radical chlorination with the radical source bing UV photolysis.
In the same paper Hoffman commends the utility of SbCl5 as a chlorinating agent, including for vapor phase chlorinations with Cl2 where the SbCl5 is
employed catalytically.
Therefore, why not distill dichloromethane and dry chlorine through SvCl5 heated to a temperature at or above the bp of CHCl3. The product should
consist of ChCl3, a little CCl4 and some unreacted CH2Cl2.
Run these through again (at least the DCM and the chloroform) until all converted to CCl4.
UV not rquired.
There are roughly 20 C differences between the bps of DCM, chloroform and CCl4. SbCl4 boils higher at well over 90 C..
Ought this not to work?
DCM is after all a lot cheaper than CS2, the other feedstock for CCl4. We might lose a little CCl4 to hexachloroethane but less than with UV
photolysis. No sulfur compounds to deal with. Industrially this process (starting with methane and using UV) has largely displaced the chlorination of
CS2.
Anyone have ideas?
I cannot buy CHCl3 or CCl4. I can buy DCM.
Having already established that SbCl5 is the answer to making CCl4 from BrCCl3, and the same reagent use useful to chlorinate CS2, this is about the
only world left to conquer when it comes to CCl4.
[Edited on 24-2-2009 by Sauron]
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Sounds nasty... I really don't care to work with fuming inorganic substances. Not to mention the available chlorine may be fairly low from antimony
pentachloride, since I presume after losing one chlorine you end up with an antimony in a lower oxidation state that is perhaps unreactive. The atom
economy of the radical chlorination is probably substantially better.
I'm sorry, I have to laugh a little since you're always concerned about tox issues... but antimony pentachloride is going to be highly toxic (and
volatile), carbon tet is a carcinogen, and chloroform is... well probably not that bad.  How much do you need?
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In the same paper Hoffman commends the utility of SbCl5 as a chlorinating agent, including for vapor phase chlorinations with Cl2 where the SbCl5 is
employed catalytically.
Therefore, why not distill dichloromethane and dry chlorine through SbCl5 heated to a temperature at or above the bp of CHCl3. The product should
consist of CHCl3, a little CCl4 and some unreacted CH2Cl2.
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Sauron has said that SbCl5 may only need to be used in catalytic amounts and the use of dry chlorine should regenerate the SbCl5 as the reaction
consumes it. SbCl5 boils at 140C, which is quite a fair bit above the chloromethanes (CCl4 = 77C, CHCl3 = 61C, CH2Cl2 = 40C)
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Anyone have ideas?
I cannot buy CHCl3 or CCl4. I can buy DCM.
I cannot at present put my hand on the file, but I did notice an interesting prep for CHCl3 with 2 phase electrolysis, with reaonable yields -
utilizing NaCl in the aquarius phase and dichlormethane in the more non-polar phase. It basicaly consisted, if memory serves me correctly, of an
undivided cell with the 2 phases maintained, and the aquarius phase having electrodes placed to that depth only, and not touching the lower phase. A
stir bar was placed in order for the lower, dichloromethane to be stirred. Perhaps with longer reaction times, then CCl4 could also be produced. I
will try to find the article. Hopefuly my description hasn't deviated to much from the said article.
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DJF90 yes, I actually did read the Hoffman paper, in German as well as in translation.
And I stated above that DCM, chloroform and CCl4 are approx. 20 C apart in bp and indeed, they are 21C and 16 C apart, the point being that no one is
going to say they are too close to fractionate.
I looked up SbCl5 in Acros catalog. Twice actually. bp 92 C. Now I suppose the Belgians could be wrong, and I have no ego invested in this datum. I
will not complain if it boils at 140 C.
My suggestion of passing the vapor of CH2Cl2 admixed w/Cl2 through SbCl5 at a temp above the bp of the product(s) was to drive them off to condenser.
I am not talking about a stoichiometric use of the antimony pentachloride. If I was the injection of Cl2 would not be required. I was merely trying to
design a simple procedure.
Anyway thanks for the comment. I will peek at Brauer to see whether the Belgians are in error.
Indeed Brauer says bp 140 C/760 mm w/decomposition so the Belgians need to sit in the corner and face the wall while wearing a pointy hat.
Sigma-Aldrich says 92 C/30mm so obviously Acros just forgot to mention the diminished pressure.
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What is the best way of producing antimony pentachloride as it is a very useful reagent for chlorinations of this type? I have powdered antimony metal
and about 50 grams of antimony trichloride produced from antimony sulfide (stibnite) by heating with hydrochloric acid ouside and then distilling the
residue producing the trichloride. I have a good chlorine generator set up and a fume hood, so the handling of the chlorine would not be a problem.
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You are all set.
SbCl5 as anyone who has workedmwith it will tell you is a paon in the ass to store. I would therefore store it as SbCl3 and make it in situ as needed.
SbCl3 + Cl2 -> SbCl5
See Brauer, Handbook of Preparative Inorganic Chemistry for details, but it is simple.
The chlorine as usual needs to be dry.
As you know the trichloride is solid and the pentachloride liquid.
One mol SbCl3 will liquify in chlorine and gain 70 g mass so stop when the tared receiver is at the correct weight.
Distill in vacuum, bp 92/30mm but protect your pump, and if you use an aspirator, place a drying tube inline between the receiver and the vacuum
connection.
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Sooner or later someone will say "But what about the haloform reaction?" to get chloroform.
The haloform is fine on a small scale but unweildy on a larger scale, and as lots of us have discovered, unforgiving if you do not adequately control
the exotherm. If that happens the reaction runs away and you lose the mixture out of the flask. Bad bad bad. It is a good way to make 25-50 ml CHCl3
but a bad way to make 250-500 ml, just work out the volumes involved,
If you want liters of CHCl3 and CCl4 then these other methods are the ways to select from.
Halogen exchange with BrCCl3
Chlorination of CS2
Chlorination of DCM and then of CHCl3.
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Sauron... Another genius method! I myself had looked at dichloromethane to chloroform and carbon tetrachloride. UV chlorination is costly in energy
and a mixture of products.
Catalytic chlorination does sound feasible. And once again it is our lovely friend Antimony doing the dirty work 
It would save on CS2 which is incredibly flammable and toxic, and not to say not exactly dirt cheap. DCM is much more readily obtained than CS2 and is
also fairly cheap for a LR and Technical grade which I would imagine would be well suited here as a feed stock.
Giving this a go Sauron? :p
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What about catalytic chlorination of tetrachloroethylene?
Cheaper and more available starting material?
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Tetrachloroethylene is not importable into this country. Neither is ethylene dichloride, nor ethylene dibromide.
I am not sure about 1,1,3 trichloroethylene, which can be converted to CCl4. Nicodem posted some references and patents on this a while back. IIRC it
is a pressure reaction with O2 and a catalyst.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Sauron
I am not sure about 1,1,3 trichloroethylene, which can be converted to CCl4. |
-I think you need some sleep
Trichlorethene (trichlorethylene) is by definition 1,1,2 trichlorethene and because there is no other possibility for a trichloro compound of ethene
often the front numbers are excluded...
Maybe you meant a trichloropropene compound?
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That is a typographical error not a chemical one.
The Cl2C=CH-Cl is oxidized to trichloroacetyl chloride in a chlorooxidation.
The trichloroacetyl chloride falls apart under chlorination with UV photolysis to give CCl4 and gaseous side products CO, HCl, and a little phosgene
from reaction of Cl2 and CO.
This happens anytime trichloroacetic acid or dichloroacetyl chloride is photolyzed and chlorinated - this is quantitative. . It also happens when
trichloroacetic acid is chlorinated by non-photolytic means, such as with benzoyl chloride, but to a smaller extent. (c.25%) See attached H.C.Brown
article from JACS and references therein. Also see the chloral thread and chloral chemistry review from Chem.Rev. posted there.
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?action=att...
I recommend you right-click and use Save Target As...
Left click usually gets a corrupted pdf due to forum software.
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By the way Sauron,
Because of your interest in halogenated and toxic compounds...
1°)If you warm at reflux trichlorethene with HNO3 69% you get easily a single compound related to chloropicrin (Cl3C-NO2) that is Cl2C=CCl(NO2)
(1,1,2-trichloro-2 nitroethene).
It displays the sharp smel of chloropicrin and is realtively toxic...it reacts with diamines to give FOX related compounds.
2°)Upon H2SO4 boiling of Trichlorethene, one can get as final compound chloracetic acid itself a good source for the synthesis of 1.3 dichloroacetone
(dichloropropanone)...
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It may surprise you but I have no particular interest in chloropicrin, and no particular interest in trichloroethylene. The latter was suggested by
Nicodem as a shortcut to trichloroacetyl chloride at a time when more facile routes to CCl4 were not yet at hand. Things have changed.
And my interest in CCl4 and CHCl3 is almost entirely a matter of their utility as solvents and occasionally as reagents.
Stupid regulations born of hidebound bureaucracy make us all jump throiugh hoops like these. I do rather enjoy frustrating all that when I can. To a
very great extent I am done with such preliminaries and can now get down to brass tacks.
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By the way Sauron,
Because of your interest in halogenated and toxic compounds...
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His name is Sauron, not Sarin
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Just don't call me late for dinner. 
Now let's get back to chemistry.
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LOL!^^^
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Quote: Originally posted by Sauron  | The pseudonymous "Hpffman" writing in Annalen in a paper elsewhere on this forum, stated that the usual procedure for lab prep of CCl4 was to distill
chloroform in a stream of dry Cl2 while illuminating with direct sunlight.
This is recognizable as vapor phase free radical chlorination with the radical source bing UV photolysis.
In the same paper Hoffman commends the utility of SbCl5 as a chlorinating agent, including for vapor phase chlorinations with Cl2 where the SbCl5 is
employed catalytically.
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Does anyone know what this reference is about? I cant find any articles on the subject of SbCl5 by either Hoffmann, or the more famous A W Hofmann in
Annalen der Chemie and/or Pharmacie for any year. I dont think this exists.
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That is because you are an arrogant ass.
I posted the German original in Wanted References Needed Translations last year and one of the members (maybe formatok) translated it and posted that.
I will be happy to furnish either to any member - but not you. After all you don't need something that "doesn't exist".
"Hoffman" was a frequent PSUEDONYMOUS contributor to Annalen and had no connection with any of the several chemists os same or similar name.
His articlr describes theee exothermic reaction of CS2 and SbCl5 as well as that of CS2 and Cl2 over SbCl3; and more briefly the gas prase
chlorination of ethylene to 1,2-dichloroethane, and of acetyene to 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethene
- in boyj cases by passimg a mixture pf Cl2 and the hydrocarbon over heated SbCl5.
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It really doesnt matter that you say you wontpost - i have access to the entire annalen and its not there
You can of course write whatever you happen to choose about me, it stands for nought as your 5000+ posts of what you plan to do with no outcome vouch
for your credibility. In contrast I stand behind everything I say.
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I can't help it that you don't know how to search.
You are just setting yourself up for a fall, because the paper IS real, and as stated, so upi are going to look foolish and I will be delighted to
administer the blow.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Sauron |
I posted the German original in Wanted References Needed Translations last year and one of the members (maybe formatok) translated it and posted that.
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It was I.
Here is the link:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=11698&...
and here is the paper:
Attachment: About_the_Reaction_of_CS2_with_SbCl5.pdf (21kB)
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Thanks fractional for the reference - that was interesting.
I wansnt of course stating that there is no article - I couldnt be sure of that - just what I said - that there is no Annalen article whose author
comes up as Hoffmann/Hoffman etc. on the subject.
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Thanks fractional
Here is the original paper by "Hofmann" p264 Annalen 115 (1860)
READ IT AND WEEP LEN1
And as to your frantic backpedaling:
"Does anyone know what this reference is about? I cant find any articles on the subject of SbCl5 by either Hoffmann, or the more famous A W
Hofmann in Annalen der Chemie and/or Pharmacie for any year. I dont think this exists.."
So eat your words along with the crow.
Why not write an Illustrated Practical Guide on How to Open Mouth and Insert Foot.
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Attachment: Annalen, 1860, 115, pp264.pdf (165kB)
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Interesting, when you do a search on Annalen (anyone can do this even without access) for Hofmann, this article doesnt come up. Yet when you go to
the contents pages it is there, without attribution to an author, obviously you cant trust Wiley's search engine.
Sauron have you been bitten? Though not recently, its getting worse.
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