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Acetone and Hypochlorite
Does anyone know how adding Acetone decomposes the excess hypochlorite after a treatment of sodium hypochlorite solution?
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Do an internet search on the "haloform" reaction. Chloroform is formed at high pH. At much lower pH, chloroacetone (causes strong tear production in
the eyes) is formed.
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I see if you do a Haloform reaction, (using sodium hypochlorite as the source of both base and chlorine?) you get a carboxyllic acid and CCl3-, or
RCOO- and chloroform, but then when you add acetone, after the chloroform is expelled, how does the acetone destroy the exess hypochlorite?
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Oh, the acetone and the NaOCl go through another Haloform reaction?
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So you get propanoic acid and chloroform again? Where did the -OH come from to make the acid?
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http://www.organic-chemistry.org/namedreactions/haloform-rea...
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How about DETRITUS?
There's an entire forum library for answers to basic questios like the mechanism of the haloform reaction.
Read Gattermann, read Vogel, read Cohen.
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