mackolol
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electrolysis of nacl in propylene carbonate
Hi, I'm interested in making cell for electrolysis of nacl in propylene carbonate to get cheap sodium and chlorine, but i can't find anything on
google and I'm afraid of doing it without any previous informations about this as I'm beginner in amateur chemistry. Does anybody have information
about this? What should electrodes be like and how does the sodium forms, what is the efficiency, if the chlorine doesn't destroy anything and the
major dangers.
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I'm also interested in this procedure and I'm planning to do an experiment, when I get all the stuff needed. NaCl is not soluble in Propylene
Carbonate, so AlCl3 has to be added and then NaAlCl4 electrolysed. Look at the linked paper.
ELECTRODEPOSITION OF THE ALKALI METALS FROM PROPYLENE CARBONATE
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Hunterman2244
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How would one make AlCl3?
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JJay
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Zinc chloride and aluminum is the most amateur friendly way. If you want large quantities of it, you'll probably want to heat aluminum in a stream of
chlorine or hydrogen chloride. It is probably possible to use the more OTC copper (ii) chloride instead of zinc chloride, but the reaction is pretty
fierce.
[Edited on 17-6-2018 by JJay]
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