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A yield of 93% for ETN is quite enviable with H2SO4/KNO3, do you mind providing a little detail on your procedure
please? I would be curious to know if you had issues with the contents of the reaction vessel thickening toward the end of additions? How much
H2SO4:KNO3 did you use? Is the 93% yield measured from the recrystallised and fully dried product?
Thanks!
Edit: Also what H2SO4 are you using?
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I have same question a like BaP. 93% is high yield. With KNO3. I estimate you used a bigger excess of H2SO4. Against method with HNO3.
For example, for 10g dry Erythritol is used 60ml SA 96% + 40 ml HNO3 65%. And Yield is 20g ETN after recrystallisation. Run temperature between zero
to + 5C.
I forgot theoretical yield about 22g ? on 10g E.
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100% yield from 10 g of erythritol would be 24.75 g of ETN
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Thanks very much, B(a)P......
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OK, details.
200g H2SO4 (great excess)
65g KNO3
mixed and chilled to zero C.
Procedure was done outside at environmental approx zero C, on ice bath (no salt)
15g erythritol added in small portions over approx 2h with vigorous stirring, at first magnetic but then as the mixture thickened I had to resort to
manual stirring with a glass rod (the magnetic stirbar became overwhelmed). No more that 1g per addition with 5-10 minutes of stirring between.
At the end of the addition consistency was about the same as sour cream.
When this was done, the mix was brought to an intermediate temperature of approx 10C and held there with stirring for 30 minutes.
Subsequently temperature was increased to 21C for 1h again with stirring. An ice bath was kept nearby to prevent any runaway reactions. As soon as
there was any NO2 released from the mix, the mix was put on ice bath and stirred like crazy until gas formation stopped. This had to be done every few
minutes.
In the end, it was crashed in a large amount of cold water. Since it was still too thick to pour, first I added 200ml ice-cold water with stirring
then immediately dumped it all in 2L ice cold water. There was some heating of the mix going on with the water addition but I was quick enough to not
lead to any damage.
The water/ETN/salts mix was stirred at low temperature for 1h, then filtered and thoroughly dried over 2 days.
The 93% yield is on product that was NOT recrystallized, but very dry.
(edit) The sulfuric acid used was straight drain cleaner, which in my area is very high quality (95%, no dyes, no impurities). The KNO3 was purchased
last week from Duda Diesel. The erythritol is standard food-grade sweetener without any additives, purchased from Amazon.
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Great work. Is see great exces of H2SO4...95..?...98%..? On 15g E. It is better to use a spoon to remove the cream from the reaction vessel. And
after individual spoons add to 2 liters of ice / water. Never rinse a reaction vessel containing 20 or even 30% cream. The temperature will rise
sharply in 1 second. Others steps are perfect. Only one gram adding with long pause is maybe main key for big yield.
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Thanks for posting I too was wondering how you got such yields. I am going to try this and see if I can replicate the results.
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=155655
This thread is another apparent high yields synth with a video, I have tried this one as well may times and have yet to be able to replicate it.
Normally around 65-70% yield. If anyone can replicated these results and offer some key advice I am all ears and would appreciate it!
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FWIW here's the effect of 300mg of the final product detonated inside a small cardboard tube using a PbN3 primary, with fairly light compression.
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Quote: Originally posted by Laboratory of Liptakov  | | Great work. Is see great exces of H2SO4...95..?...98%..? On 15g E. It is better to use a spoon to remove the cream from the reaction vessel. And
after individual spoons add to 2 liters of ice / water. Never rinse a reaction vessel containing 20 or even 30% cream. The temperature will rise
sharply in 1 second. Others steps are perfect. Only one gram adding with long pause is maybe main key for big yield. |
Thank you. I discovered yout YT channel recently, good material there. I am experimenting with 2 new sources of PIB binder and will report here if
either of them is useful. Should have some results in a week.
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