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Hello everyone, I have a small question on what kind of tubing you guys use to handle sulfur dioxide gas. The only tubing I have on hand is vinyl and
i can get silicone or polethylene tubing if necessary. I looked up a chemical reactivity chart online and it said that both vinyl and polyethylene
tubing react severely with SO2. So my question is what kind of tubing do you guys generally use to handle this stuff. By the way, the specific
reaction that I would be doing would only be running dry SO2 through the tubing for around 2 hours. Thanks!
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How far does the gas need to go? Maybe you can use glass instead if it’s only a short path (or you can make it so) from the source.
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Last time I did SO2 I used aluminium. Seemed to work. Glass would be my first choice though. You need it flexible for a reason?
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Teflon can be useful if you need inert but flexible tubing. To attach it to glassware (because it is quite hard) I put some rubber bands over the
glass, then wrap them with Teflon tape, then slide the tube over the bands to create a seal. If it'll get particularly hot, maybe you shouldn't use
rubber, but instead think of something suitable.
[Edited on 11-5-2018 by User13579]
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TheNerdyFarmer
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Thanks for all the replies. I guess it doesn't have to be flexible, it was just preferred. Mainly because I am pretty bad at bending glass, but I
guess I'll have to just use this as practice  . Again, thanks!
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Everyone should have an assortment of sizes of tubing on hand. A foot of each diameter plastic and a meter of glass. Fire polish those cut ends.
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Personally I'd get some PTFE tubing and use it with glass tubing. Oftentimes some flexibility is useful if you're clamping things - where a slight
knock will break glass tubing easily. PTFE tubing is very cheap and practically as chemically resistant as glass. Heat resistant too - enough for
organic chemistry temperatures, anyway.
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FFS just use PE tubing, its completely inert to SO2 and unless you need mechanical integrity at temperatures above 100C you are fine. Flexibility will
be largely a function of its wall thickness.
If you have time order/acquire the coloured PP tubing commonly used in post mix soft drink carbonation systems. its obviously just as inert as Pe but
has a better mechanical strength at !00C
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Who are FFS? A SO2 manufacturer?
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Is that right?! He should shut the fuck up then because I recommend PTFE, for fuck's sake. Stupid fuck.
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Yes he is.
Does this apply to everyone? If so, there's a chance it could get rather quiet around here.
You appear to be upset. Is it because his recommendation differed from yours or that you did not understand the acronym?
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User13579: Still not grown up? Regard this as a mild warning. Next time it will be less mild.
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I would have been less mild, but hey, there's always next time.
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Would the synthesis of triethyl borate be identical to that of trimethyl borate (reflux, distillation, and if necessary, separation of the
azeotropes)?
I also assume that sulfuric acid will be a strong enough acid catalyst for this reaction.
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At least two youtube videos say yes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjcShe-YrR8 (warning: bad music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiMFOZP9N84
Attached is a paper about the hydrogenation of piperic acid. No idea why...
Attachment: lebedev1929.pdf (377kB)
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Well, I have a short question concerning chirality...
If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated.
So, if I have a chiral (S)-alcohol, and I want to create a (S)-amine out of it.
Going via an SN2 reaction, a tosylation or halogenation would yield the (R)-tosylate or halogen, that is so far clear.
If I am going to aminate it directly with an amine(but I want a primary (S)-amine), it would lead to this again, going with the umbrella analogy here.
Is that right so far?
So, what I think of, reaction the of the (R)-tosylate or -halogen, with K-phthalimide or -succinimide, that would lead to the (S)-phthalimide or
-succinimide protected amine and cleaving the protection group would give me the primary (S)-amine, no?
Edit: And if kept more simple, if the (R)-tosylate is reacted with ammonia, would that yield the (S)-amine directly? I think so...
That makes sense to me, but I fear I might have got it wrong somewhere.
If someone could confirm or disprove my thinking, I would be very grateful 
Edit2: I am very sorry for being so stupid, of course I was right, the walden inversion takes place in any of the mentioned cases... 
Edit3: No, actually I am pretty much lost on this case it seems. No walden inversion takes place with a tosylate(due to bulkiness probably?), but when
the chiral alcohol becomes halogenated, the inversion takes place, right?
Thus, aminating the halogenated compound will give the starting chirality again through retention, but with the tosylate not?
That seems about right now, but I thought that also earlier...
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There is no inversion when an alcohol reacts with tosyl chloride because the oxygen atom doesn't move and the bonds on the carbon atom are unchanged.
Instead tosyl chloride is the electrophile and oxygen is the nucleophile. Contrast with an Sn2 where the protonated alcohol is the electrophile at
carbon and bromide is the nucleophile.
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Thank you, that was very helpful!
So, if the inversed brominated, now (R)-rotating compound, after the inversion, is reacted with ammonia, it would lead to through retention to the
(S-)-amine. Right?
But if the (S)-tosylate is reacted with phthalimide, there would be no chiral inversion because it is no nucleophilic substitution...?
That really was a good and helpful answer, I'll write on my list "more learning on nucleophiles and electrophiles" now...
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I'd probably try burning off the film, but you'll want to keep the temperature below 600 C or so.
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I have dissolved cans in NaOH before and I have never encountered that much of a problem. Usually the reaction starts very slowly but picks up and
becomes quite vigorous. You could try tearing the cans or just poking a hole in it just to expose a little bit of fresh aluminum. I would be curious
if the plastic film is actually the problem or if it just has a thick oxide coating. Seeing as how you mentioned the acetone dissolving the coating
but not helping the reaction along.
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Question psychically answered above
APPOLOGY: I did it again, edited/deleted a post and left the thread confused.
The two posts above were posted before I'd finished ... sorry.
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I want to use aluminium cans and sodium hydroxide to make hydrogen.
There is a very thin plastic film coating the aluminium that is really effective in protecting the aluminium from the sodium hydroxide solution.
(I tried NaOH soution in the 1M to 12M range).
Acetone dissolves at least partially the plastic film,
judging more by the residue left after evaporation of the acetone than any increased reactivity of the aluminium.
Anyone know a quick,easy,cheap method of enabling the sodium hydroxide to get to the aluminium ?
For reference, the scale will be multiple batches of 400 litres of hydrogen,
requiring about 24 aluminium cans and 500g sodium hydroxide per batch.
Pieces of aluminium cooking foil added to the mix react quickly and rapidly,
so I still suspect the plastic rather than the oxide.
The aluminium can I tested by tearing into c1" squares,
plenty bubbling aroung the edges, negligible bubbling on the flat surfaces.
The hydrogen is for filling 400 litre balloons with steel wire tethering as a vertical antenna,
so a reasonable reaction rate is required.
EDIT: pieces of aluminium can each approx. 1" x 2" after five hours in c1M NaOH.
A lot of the aluminium has been dissolved from between the inner and outer plastic layers which remain intact !
Four pieces inside-up, one piece outside-up.
[Edited on 23-5-2018 by Sulaiman]
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I have stupid question as I am not very deeply into practise because im a beginner. If i have to steam distill and in the mixture water is present do
i have to connect separate flask with boiling water or not. And what is the difference between normal distillation and steam distillation. Thanks
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Quote: Originally posted by mackolol  | | I have stupid question as I am not very deeply into practise because im a beginner. If i have to steam distill and in the mixture water is present do
i have to connect separate flask with boiling water or not. And what is the difference between normal distillation and steam distillation. Thanks
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For steam distillations, some just add a whole bunch of water to their pot and distill out their desired product with the water. However, a proper
steam distillation actually uses a separate "steam generator" that then runs steam through your product to distill it.
The difference between normal distillation and steam distillation is that in normal distillation, you are directly boiling out your product whereas
steam distillation uses the fact that mixtures boil as mixtures (in a lot of cases) and it just uses water (steam) as a carrier for your product.
Steam distillations are useful if your product will decompose at its boiling point.
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So would it work if i tried to steam distill formamide or diethyl sulphate?
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