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Making Nitrosylsulphuric acid, NOHSO4
I want to make nitrosylsulphuric acid and I have thought to a process and I would want to have some commentary about it.
First mixing NH4NO3 with 95% H2SO4 with a really great excess of sulphuric acid and wait a few hours, and then gravity decent from the NH4HSO4.(HNO3
sol. in H2SO4)
Then pass sulfur dioxide in the nitric/sulphuric acid mix to get a suspension of NOHSO4 in sulphuric acid ready to use it as a nitrite.
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| Quote: | (From Wiki)
A typical procedure entails dissolving sodium nitrite in concentrated sulfuric acid in an ice bath:
HNO2 + H2SO4 → NOHSO4 +H2O
The molecule can also be viewed as the mixed acid anhydride of sulfuric acid and nitrous acid. Alternatively, it can be prepared by the reaction of
nitric acid and sulfur dioxide. |
When NH<sub>4</sub>NO<sub>3</sub> is dissolved in a large excess of H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>
nitramide NH<sub>2</sub>NO<sub>2</sub> is formed.
| Quote: | | . . . a suspension of NOHSO4 in sulphuric acid ready to use it as a nitrite. |
NOHSO<sub>4</sub> is soluble in sulphuric acid.
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| Quote: | | When NH4NO3 is dissolved in a large excess of H2SO4 nitramide NH2NO2 is formed. |
Are you sure about this?
This is totally new to me. Could you please tell us from where you did get this information?
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No handy reference woelen, but it's dehydration by excess sulphuric acid; NH<sub>4</sub>NO<sub>3</sub> minus
H<sub>2</sub>O ---> NH<sub>2</sub>NO<sub>2</sub>.
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2 NO2 + 2 SO2 + H2O2 --> 2 NOHSO4
Support for this synthesis, per Wikipedia:
"A typical procedure entails dissolving sodium nitrite in concentrated sulfuric acid in an ice bath:[2][3]
HNO2 + H2SO4 → NOHSO4 +H2O
The molecule can also be viewed as the mixed acid anhydride of sulfuric acid and nitrous acid. Alternatively, it can be prepared by the reaction of
nitric acid and sulfur dioxide.[4]"
And as:
2 NO2 + H2O2 → 2 HNO3
the suggested synthesis is by the action of HNO3 on SO2.
Or, as:
H2SO3 + H2O2 --> H2SO4 + H2O
and:
NO2 + H2O --> HNO2 + HNO3
by the reaction of HNO2 and H2SO4.
Note, per Wikipedia, the thermal decomposition of Lead nitrate produces NO2:
2 Pb(NO3)2 → 2 PbO + 4 NO2 + O2
so neither concentrated H2SO4 or HNO3 are needed, but high concentration H2O2 may be required , or not, see comment below by Woelen recommending 10%
H2O2 and boiling to make a more concentrated H2SO4 from SO2 and H2O2, which may be applicable to the synthesis of NOHSO4 also:
"Making H2SO4 from SO2 can be done in another way. Take some dilute HCl (not more than 15%), add sodium bisulfite (or potassium bisulfite), which can
be purchased at wine/beer making stores as disinfectant and preservant. Then heat the solution to (almost) boiling. The SO2 now bubbles out of this
solution, it does not dissolve well in hot water. And, if your HCl is not of too high concentration, you hardly will get any HCl with the SO2. By
bubbling the SO2 (with small amounts of HCl in it) through H2O2 you make H2SO4. Heating this in turn drives off any small amounts of HCl, decomposes
excess H2O2 and concentrates the solution.
Be careful with leading SO2 through H2O2 in this case. Use only 10% H2O2 (you can boil off water later on) and be careful for suckback. When
production of SO2 is not fast enough or when heating is stopped, while the bubbling tube is still in the H2O2, then quickly liquid is sucked back and
eventually may come in your HCl/bisulfite mix. This is a real risk, so be VERY careful.
You can use plastic/rubber tubing. The transparent tubes, sold in aquarium stores for oxygen pumps or filters is perfectly suitable. SO2 is not
corrosive to those tubes (but it is to your lungs!, be careful)."
LINK: http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/13142-making-sulfuric-aci...
Also, one could replace Hydrogen peroxide all together with Ozone or HOCl (which introduces a side product of HCl). Note, if one prepares the
Hypochlorous acid by the action of water on Dichloroisocyanuric acid (DCCA) please exercise care as the disproportionation of conc HOCl into HClO3
(and HCl) can liberate explosive ClO2 gas in the presence of Hydrochloric acid (at least one serious lab accident attributed to Chlorine dioxide from
HClO3/HCl has been noted in prior Sciencemadness threads).
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I dont have H2O2.
You said that it make NH2NO2 by dehydratation, could the NH2NO2 be used to make isopropyl nitrite by mixing the sol. with isopropyl alcohol or be
directly reacted with hydrazine to make azides. Since im planning to use the NOHSO4 for azide synthesis. I have thinked to something, if nitramine and
urea is reacted in boilling sol could it make ammonium azide?
2NH2NO2 + 2(NH2)2CO -) 2CO2 + 2H2O + 2NH4N3
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Quote: Originally posted by hissingnoise  | No handy reference woelen, but it's dehydration by excess sulphuric acid; NH<sub>4</sub>NO<sub>3</sub> minus
H<sub>2</sub>O ---> NH<sub>2</sub>NO<sub>2</sub>.
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Yes, I saw that nitramide has has the atoms of ammonium nitrate with exactly one molecule of water removed, but I have severe doubts on the real
occurrence of dehydration in this particular case.
Ammonium nitrate can be dissolved in hot sulphuric acid and nitric acid can be distilled out of this mix and ammonium sulfate remains behind. If
heating is too strong, then decomposition may occur with formation of N2O and H2O. But I never read about formation of NH2NO2 and I did a small search
on google and I find no description about this reaction.
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| Quote: | | If heating is too strong, then decomposition may occur with formation of N2O and H2O. |
The decomposition products of nitramide are N<sub>2</sub>O and H<sub>2</sub>O!
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This from Davis's COPAE:
| Quote: | The solution which results when ammonium nit ‘5tLe is dissolved
in a large excess of concentrated sulfuric acid evidently
contains nitroamide.* If the solution is warmed directly, no nitric
acid distils from it but at about 150’ it gives off nitrous oxide
which corresponds to the dehydration of the nitroamide by the
action of the strong acid. The nitroamide moreover, by the action
of the same acid, may be hydrated to yield nitric acid, slowly if
the solution is digested at 90” to 120°, under which conditions
the nitric acid distils out. |
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Nitrosyl sulfuric acid is typically prepared by passing a mixture of nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide into concentrated sulfuric acid.
3 H2SO4 + NO + NO2 --> 2 HSO4(NO) + HSO4(H3O)
Pure nitrosylsulfuric acid is actually a white solid at room temperature, but it dissolves in highly concentrated sulfuric acid. In lower sulfuric
acid concentrations (30% for example), some of it can precipitate out as a solid, while in much more dilute sulfuric acid (or in plain water) the
nitrosylsulfuric acid hydrolyses back into sulfuric acid and nitrogen oxides.
Also to mention, nitrosylsulfuric acid is chemically similar in many ways to another compound, nitrosyl perchlorate.
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=196
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So I tried something today in the objective to make isopropyl nitrite for azide production.
I tried a one pot synthesis of it with large excess of sulphuric acid.(based on stochiometry (starting with 5g NH4NO3)
2H2SO4 + 2NH4NO3 + Na2S2O5 -) 2NOHSO4 + Na2SO4 + (NH4)2SO4 + H2O
I mixed the sulfuric and the nitrate, then I cooled the sol. and putted it in cold water
I added small amount of metabisulfite, but I added isopropyl alcohol before adding all the metabisulfite, so a small runaway ocured with nitrogen
oxides( proving that my mixture was indeed a nitrosyl!). then I added all the metabisulfite small amount at the time and the alcohol later on but I
had already used all the nitrate with the runaway so nothing happened.....
A good point is that a small yellow layer was formed on top which correspond to the color of isopropyl nitrite, probably a lot less than it shhould
have been made...
I used all my metabisulfite so I need to buy/make more of it.
Improvement that could be made:
Using ice/salt mixture in place of the cold water.
Adding slowly all the metabisulfite before the isopropyl alcohol
use mixing.
Use sodium or potassium nitrate in place of ammonium nitrate
Work need to be done in this way.
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Nitrosyl sulfuric acid hydrolyses with water to form sulfuric acid and nitrous acid, which is given off as nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide bubbles
from the solution.
HSO3NO + H2O --> H2SO4 (aq) + HNO2
2 HNO2 <==> NO + NO2 + H2O
Apparently, however, nitrosyl sulfuric acid can precipitate out as solid crystals from 30 percent concentrated sulfuric acid, showing that the
hydrolysis is an equilibrium reaction. But at much higher concentrations of sulfuric acid, the nitrosylsulfuric acid can again dissolve.
2 HSO4NO + H2O <==> 2 H2SO4 (aq) + NO + NO2
The Lead Chamber process is basically just the oxidation of sulfur dioxide by air to sulfuric acid, catalysed by nitric oxide. There just happens to
be very complex reaction equilibria occuring in the process.
If one already has sodium nitrite and concentrated sulfuric acid, I see no reason why sulfur dioxide would be of any benefit for making nitrosyl
sulfuric acid, because the sulfur dioxide will just get oxidized to sulfuric acid first, before it is forms nitrosylsulfuric acid. Although I
suppose sulfur dioxide could be useful if one does not have access to nitric oxides, as the SO2 could reduce concentrated nitric acid, forming
nitrogen dioxide as an intermediate, which would could then be absorbed by the sulfuric acid.
HNO3 + SO2 --> HSO4NO
I do not think this reaction would be very efficient, as the HNO2/NO2/HSO4NO would tend to oxidize the SO2 much more rapidly than the nitric acid.
Higher concentrations of nitric acid would be expected to increase yields, as HNO3 reacts much more rapidly at higher concentrations, and is actually
a stronger oxidizer than HNO2/NO2 or HSO4NO. However, I would not expect nitrosylsulfuric acid to be stable in the presence of very high
concentrations of nitric acid. The nitrosyl ion, NO[+] would react with the nitrate ions, giving off nitrogen dioxide from the solution. This is not
to say that HSO4NO cannot exist in the presence of nitric acid, just that as soon as the NO2 leaves the solution, the equilibrium will shift. In other
words, it is best to use fairly concentrated nitric acid, but not too concentrated, perhaps 20-40% conc. ?
I suppose this makes sense. But it might be better to use potassium nitrate instead of ammonium nitrate. The ammonium ions could potentially be
oxidized under these conditions, especially if there is significant heat, Although typically the oxidation of ammonium salts by nitrogen
dioxide is relatively slow; see https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=18...
I do not know how fast nitrosyl sulfuric acid would oxidize ammonium ions. On the one hand, the NO[+] ion is more oxidizing than NO2, but on the other
hand, both NO[+] and NH4[+] are positively charged, so would repel, making any reaction rate very slow. The nitrosyl group could also act as an
oxidizer undissassociated into ions, still attached as part of the nitrosylsulfuric acid molecule.
In other words, the reaction might not work, or may give lower yields. But if it does work, it is probably not a good idea to let the nitrosylsulfuric
acid sit around too long together with the ammonium sulfate byproduct from the reaction. You might want to immediately use the nitrosylsulfuric acid
to react with something else.
One big disadvantage of using KNO3, however, is that it is much more difficult to dissolve in concentrated sulfuric acid. If I can make a suggestion,
first finely crush the pellets of KNO3, then heat with the sulfuric acid to get it to first dissolve before adding anything else, and let it cool to
room temperature. Then the sulfite (or metabisulfite) can be added, in small additions over a period of time. Do not add the sulfite all at once, this
would just cause the SO2 to all bubble out. The sulfur dioxide is going to need some time to be oxidized, depending on the concentrations of acid. I
do not know what an ideal length of time this should take, but would guess the sulfite should be added over a period of 8-15 minutes. If only 30%
conc. acid is used, which is not advisable, then probably around 40 minutes. Adding the sulfite within too short of a period of time will just waste
sulfite and the sulfuric acid required to react with it.
Nitrosylsulfuric acid can dissassociate into ions in sulfuric acid solution:
HSO4NO <==> HSO4[-] + NO[+]
Nitronium hydrogen sulfate also exists, and is the active agent responsible for nitrations in mixtures of oleum (superconcentrated sulfuric
acid) with nitric acid.
HNO3 + SO3 --> HSO4NO2
HSO4NO2 <==> HSO4[-] + NO2[+]
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Well I used concentred sulphuric in excess to absorb the water. If this process is improuved I think it could be a really usefull process for
synthesis of isopropyl nitrite as an intermediate for azide production.
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Using a nitrite ester has the advantage that NaN<sub>3</sub> will precipitate from alcohol ─ using sodium nitrite will give a water
soln. of the azide.
The soln. can, when neutralised, be used to prepare lead azide.
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An interesting theoretical point on my suggested small scale synthesis of reacting NO2 and SO2 gases in the presence of an oxidizer is that the
reaction proceeds with replacing the oxidizer with just water and air (or a very dilute oxidizer) as:
2 NO2 + H2O <---> HNO2 + HNO3
HNO3 + SO2 ---> NOHSO4
Or on net:
2 NO2 + SO2 + H2O ---> HNO2 + NOHSO4
However, per Wikipedia to quote:
"In anything other than very dilute, cold solutions, nitrous acid rapidly decomposes into nitrogen dioxide, nitric oxide, and water:
2 HNO2 → NO2 + NO + H2O "
Substituting, assuming a decomposition of Nitrous acid:
2 NO2 + SO2 + H2O ---> 1/2 NO2 + 1/2 NO + 1/2 H2O + NOHSO4
or :
3/2 NO2 + SO2 + 1/2 H2O --> 1/2 NO + NOHSO4
but with O2/air added, and as 1/2 NO + 1/4 O2 --> 1/2 NO2:
3/2 NO2 + SO2 + 1/2 H2O + 1/4 O2 --> 1/2 NO2 + NOHSO4
or:
NO2 + SO2 + 1/2 H2O + 1/4 O2 ---> NOHSO4
So, one mole of NO2 and SO2 still produces just one mole of NOHSO4, but a quarter of a mole of oxygen must be added to avoid side products and also
that air, itself, may be a sufficient oxidizer for this reaction. Note, the comment by AndersHoveland: "The Lead Chamber process is basically just the
oxidation of sulfur dioxide by air to sulfuric acid, catalysed by nitric oxide." And, in the current case, the sulfuric acid further reacts with NO2
forming Nitrosyl sulfuric acid. An important aspect of the suggested synthesis is the relative purity of the product.
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Nitrosylsulfuric Acid
From <u>Absorption of Nitrous Gases</u> by H. W. Webb. This is from the Sciencemadness library.
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| Quote: Originally posted by AJKOER |
2 NO2 + SO2 + H2O ---> 1/2 NO2 + 1/2 NO + 1/2 H2O + NOHSO4
or :
NO2 + SO2 + 1/2 H2O + 1/4 O2 ---> NOHSO4
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Yes, this is basically what happens in the lead chamber process. The formation of nitrosylsulfuric acid in the process is neither essential, nor
desirable for the process, it just happens to be a complicating side reaction.
Remember, these are not "one-way" reactions. There are very complicated equilibria that will shift in different directions, depending
on reactant concentrations and pH. The relationship between acid concentrations and equilibria is probably fairly complex, and certainly has
non-linear effects. While oxides of nitrogen tend to be much less soluble in water under acidic conditions, in the case of more concentrated sulfuric
acid the sulfuric acid seems to do just the opposite, keeping the nitrogen oxides in the solution, in the form of nitrosylsulfuric acid that exists in
equilibrium.
Remember, most of these reactions we have mentioned are entirely reversible! Of course, the oxidation of SO2 is one-way in this
process, but everything else exists in equilibrium.
I would wonder if anything would happen if sulfur trioxide was reacted with a mix of nitrogen dioxide and nitric oxide. Possibly "nitrosyl
pyrosulfate" would form?
2 SO3 + NO2 + NO --> (NO)2S2O7
or if only nitrogen dioxide was passed in, perhaps "nitrosyl nitronium pyrosulfate"? sulfur trioxide is a very strong lewis acid, so it would not be
surprising if nitronium ions could form.
2 SO3 + 2 NO2 --> ONO-SO2-O-SO2-O-NO2
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I'm planing to re-make my one pot synthesis of isopropyl nitrite for azide production in one week. I hope all the water produced in the reaction will
be absorbed by the H2SO4
Reagent:
17g NaNO3 (NH4NO3 from instan cold pack reacted with sodium hydrogen carbonate and boiled down)
120g 95% H2SO4 (drain cleaner which seam to be highly pure for a consumer product (maybe Lab grade) (density tested for concentration))(3 time more
than required)
19g Na2S2O5 (lab grade)
12g Isopropyl alcohol ( salted out of 70% sol. of pharmacy)
Procedure that I will do:
1-Make a ice/salt bath and put a beaker with sulphuric acid in it.
2-Dissolve slowly the sodium nitrate in the sulphuric acid keeping the temperature bellow 0
3-Add very slowly and with a lot of stirring the metabisulfite and keep the temperature bellow 0
4-add one drop at the time the isopropyl and keep the temperture bellow 0
5-take a pipete and take the isopropyl nitrite layer
2NaNO3 + 4H2SO4 + Na2S2O5 -) 2NOHSO4 + 4NaHSO4 + H2O
Feel free to comment!
Thanks!!
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| Quote: Originally posted by plante1999 | Procedure that I will do:
1-Make a ice/salt bath and put a beaker with sulphuric acid in it.
2-Dissolve slowly the sodium nitrate in the sulphuric acid keeping the temperature bellow 0
3-Add very slowly and with a lot of stirring the metabisulfite and keep the temperature bellow 0
4-add one drop at the time the isopropyl and keep the temperture bellow 0
5-take a pipete and take the isopropyl nitrite layer |
That is the most unlikely synthesis of isopropyl nitrite I ever saw. It seems unlikely you would obtain a clean nitrosation of an alcohol in
concentrated sulfuric acid. What is the reference describing the O-nitrosation of alcohols with nitrosyl sulfuric acid in sulfuric acid? Are you sure
the procedure did not call for a reverse addition of the a HSO3NO/H2SO4 mixture into a isopropanol/water mixture? That is the only thing that I can
think of that would actually make sense.
O-Nitrosations of alcohols are usually performed in aqueous sodium nitrite acidified with sulfuric or other acids. In the case of water soluble
alcohols, such as isopropyl nitrite, in homogeneous reactions, the nitrite esters separate as the top liquid layer.
http://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/isopropylnit...
http://www.orgsyn.org/orgsyn/pdfs/CV2P0108.pdf
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In fact I am not an organic home chemist, I am more an inorganic/coordination home chemist.... I saw the procedure with sodium nitrite but I don't
have any nitrite so I thought to use nitrosyl sulphuric acid since it is the anydride of nitrous and sulfuric acid. Nitrous acid is used in the
original synthesis so I thougth it will work, I made my first test earlier and reported it on this thread, it did give me isopropyl nitrite but the
condition in the reaction where far from optimal. I change some point in my earlier way to make isopropyl nitrite and I come up with this and as a
said earlier I'm not an organic home chemist so I did not know that the reaction needed to be carried out in aqueous medium. You said that it would be
better to ad the mix of nitrosylsulphuric acid in an aqueous solution of isopropyl alcohol, what concentration should I use?
Thanks!!!
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I have profound safety concerns about the proposed method of synthesis of plante1999 for isopropyl nitrite. It would seem much better to generate the
nitrous gas via nitric acid and starch or paraformaldehyde and then do a gas dispersion into isopropyl alcohol for conversion of the alcohol to the
nitrite, as has been done by Microtek.
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For designing experiments, it should not matter who you are as long as you do so in accordance with the scientific method. This means that
what truly matters is what references you use and how well have you performed the literature work earlier. The evaluation of the results is then
another problem which can only be solved by an equally strict adherence to the scientific method. You can't just make up things out of the blue, or
whatever that anglo-saxon saying says. Doing so will only cause you grief and frustrations, while it will not contribute anything to your knowledge
and skills.
| Quote: | | Nitrous acid is used in the original synthesis so I thougth it will work, I made my first test earlier and reported it on this thread, it did give me
isopropyl nitrite but the condition in the reaction where far from optimal. |
You mean this:
| Quote: | I mixed the sulfuric and the nitrate, then I cooled the sol. and putted it in cold water
I added small amount of metabisulfite, but I added isopropyl alcohol before adding all the metabisulfite, so a small runaway ocured with nitrogen
oxides( proving that my mixture was indeed a nitrosyl!). then I added all the metabisulfite small amount at the time and the alcohol later on but I
had already used all the nitrate with the runaway so nothing happened.....
A good point is that a small yellow layer was formed on top which correspond to the color of isopropyl nitrite, probably a lot less than it shhould
have been made... |
OK, you made an experiment and you draw some conclusions, but you don't base your conclusions on conclusive evidence. Remember the scientific method!
How can you say that something is isopropyl nitrite just because its color corresponds? How do you know it is not isopropyl nitrate or something else
in a mixture of whatever? Fumes of nitrous oxides sounds like the usual oxidation that occurs when mixing alcohols with HNO3/H2SO4 under runaway
conditions, in the context of which your exclamation of "proving that my mixture was indeed a nitrosyl!" makes no reason. How could that prove you
obtained nitrosyl sulfuric acid in the mixture when the same reduction of HNO3 occurs also in the absence of sulfur dioxide? As Rosco said concisely,
this also raises profound safety concerns.
It seems to me that nitrosyl sulfuric acid is not your goal and that instead you just want to prepare some alkyl nitrite. Isopropyl nitrite is a bad
choice due to its volatility. Even if you opt for the butyl or pentyl nitrite, the volatility is still high and you will better have a good fume hood
or else you might become dizzy or faint from the CNS effects of the nitrite esters. The only time I prepared butyl nitrite (via Org. Synth.),
I become dizzy just from cleaning the glassware and consequently broke a flask (should have left it in the fume hood to decontaminate first).
Anyway, if you want isopropyl nitrite, you better do modifications based on a verified procedure. Rosco gave you some good advice on what to use
instead of sodium nitrite. If applying a gassing setup is too troublesome for you, you could consider doing the reduction of nitric acid in
situ. Dilute nitric acid can not effectively O-nitrate alcohols while the nitrous acid can O-nitrosate them. Therefore a mixture of diluted (say
1 or 2M) nitric acid and isopropanol might give isopropyl nitrite if a reducing reagent such as copper is used (the blue of the copper will
additionally make for the kewlish color effect, if kewlishness is your thing). Use about 4 equivalents of HNO3 over isopropanol and apply good
stirring. It might not work, but at least it is effortless.
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plante1999
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I'm not knew at all. Maybe I am not as experienced as other but I never use chemicals in the objective to make explosives to be honest I had never
made energetic material for knew things, the sodium azide that I want to make is indeed intended to reproduce the azide complex of cobalt. Like I said
I had none experience in O-chem before this reaction. I just wanted to know opinion of everybody on sm to know it I should do the synthesis that I
thought. Anyway I would like to know your opinion on this idee, if i make nitrosylsulphuric acid sol. by ''my'' process and I use a vacuum flask with
a dispensing funnel in a stopper hole. The flask filled with the sol.. of nitrosyl and the funnel with hot water. Adding hot water slowly will make
NO2+NO Than pass the gas with a gas dispersion tube in isopropyl alcohol will it be safe and will it work?
On A side note I know that the yellow liquid could be a mix of chemicals but it burned with a distinctive flame like in this
video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygAxh81WaWg
Another thing: thanks for your comments it was the type of comment that I wanted.
I never asked for this.
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plante1999
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Rosco said that I could pass NO2+NO in the isopropyl alcohol water mix. I can only get ammonium nitrate as the nitrite precursor. Could I make
nitrosylsulphuric acid with ''my'' process and then add water on the nitrosyl salt to generate the NO2+NO. How could I make NO2+NO mix from ammonium
nitrate/sodium nitrate as the precursor?
thanks!!
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barley81
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Here is an idea:
Boil the ammonium nitrate with baking soda or sodium carbonate to obtain sodium nitrate. Melt this and react it with lead (procedure is somewhere on
the forum) to produce sodium nitrite. You get litharge as a byproduct.
React the sodium nitrite with HCl and isopropanol (you know this one already) to get isopropyl nitrite.
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plante1999
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I already read the lead-nitrate process but I do not really like it since it is very ineffective from what I read on this forum. I looked in brauer
handbook of inorganic chem and it seam that nitrosylsulphuric acid is used for NO2/NO production. What would be the reaction if 99% HNO3 is reacted
with anhydrous oxalic acid?
edit: I made some nitrosylsulphuric acid with ammonium nitrate using ''my'' process without
cooling, no nitrogen oxides where produce, then I added water 0.5ml at the time. the first 0.5ml no gas where produce, at 3 drop of 0.5ml gas
production started at a steady rate and the maximum effervescence was observed at 5 drop of 0.5ml. I am very happy of the result since now it prove
the formation of nitrosylsulphuric acid. I am proud of my synthesis!
Thanks!!!
[Edited on 14-5-2012 by plante1999]
[Edited on 14-5-2012 by plante1999]
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