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Vilsmeier reagent/POCl3 formation
I'd be shocked if V-H didn't work with PCl5 -- that defies all mechanistic rationale and "common sen ...
16-5-2021 at 08:30
by: clearly_not_atara
Making Sodium, a new method?
For the production of alkali metals by electrolysis I have always thought that the bis(oxalato)borat ...
16-5-2021 at 07:33
by: clearly_not_atara
Pyridine hydrogenation - methods?
Na/EtOH is a single-electron transfer reduction system. The ionization potential of aluminium (vs. H ...
14-5-2021 at 09:01
by: clearly_not_atara
How to mix cocoa powder with sugar and milk?
To a 266 mL paper cup there was added 5 cc of pure dry cocoa powder followed by a roughly equal volu ...
13-5-2021 at 10:50
by: clearly_not_atara
N-acetyl MDA from helional
How do you expect the double bond will be converted to a ketone? I'm not convinced that you would ha ...
13-5-2021 at 10:27
by: clearly_not_atara
Acetic anhydride preparation
What kind of HCl generator makes sodium bisulfate?

There are two HCl generation methodologies I k ...
13-5-2021 at 09:59
by: clearly_not_atara
N-acetyl MDA from helional
I mean, your essential problem is simple: you're trying to obtain C-methylation of the carbonyl carb ...
13-5-2021 at 09:00
by: clearly_not_atara
Aldehyde oxidation
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Is Sodium Perborate in Acetic Acid, not suit ...
12-5-2021 at 18:05
by: clearly_not_atara
Anhydrous Aluminum Chloride
The attached ref gives procedures for the preparation of anhydrous FeCl2 and CrCl2. Either of these ...
12-5-2021 at 12:58
by: clearly_not_atara
Aldehyde oxidation
Methanol is the least susceptible to oxidation. I don't recommend it at all, but if you had to choos ...
11-5-2021 at 05:29
by: clearly_not_atara
Aldehyde oxidation
^slowly. In a cold solution it will give metastable AcOCl. It's already used in the paper, after all ...
11-5-2021 at 04:53
by: clearly_not_atara
Making silicon tetrachloride
You will not successfully convert Si(OR)4 to SiCl4, even if you can obtain the former; the affinity ...
9-5-2021 at 16:19
by: clearly_not_atara
Separating cloudy suspension of Benzyl Alcohol on water
Shouldn't you want more strongly immiscible liquids? Anisole/water seems like a better choice than B ...
9-5-2021 at 13:04
by: clearly_not_atara
methanol/ionic liquid electroplaing of metals
pKa H2O: 15.7
pKa MeOH: 15.5

Methanol gets you practically nothing as far as stability for elect ...
7-5-2021 at 11:59
by: clearly_not_atara
Question about Ethyl Bromide
The production of toxic levels of carbonyl bromide in an EtBr flame is not very likely. Unlike phosg ...
6-5-2021 at 09:55
by: clearly_not_atara
Reduction of Sodium using organic solvent
^It's not as simple as it sounds. Everything must be anhydrous, the operating voltage must be carefu ...
5-5-2021 at 16:13
by: clearly_not_atara
Ketalization of Phenol
Hm, wait. The Birch reduction of phenol or anisole gives the 3-cyclohexenone, not 2-cyclohexenone or ...
5-5-2021 at 03:55
by: clearly_not_atara
Green fluorobenzene for nontoxic bisphenol A replacements
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The direct fluorination of benzene with CuF2 seems like a solution waiting fo ...
1-5-2021 at 11:33
by: clearly_not_atara
Ketalization of Phenol
What you can do is a Birch reduction of phenol to alpha-cyclohexenone. This might then form a ketal ...
30-4-2021 at 15:24
by: clearly_not_atara
preparation/acquisition of acetone (weird problem ik)
What a strange problem to have. If you are not planning to use acetone as a reagent (as for indigo), ...
29-4-2021 at 17:54
by: clearly_not_atara
Acetic anhydride preparation
Recently a number of people on a sister forum have reported success with the acetonitrile/HCl method ...
28-4-2021 at 15:30
by: clearly_not_atara
Path to 4-Anisaldehyde
I have read recently a paper suggesting that methanolic deacetylation is quite effective. The solubi ...
28-4-2021 at 14:56
by: clearly_not_atara
Path to 4-Anisaldehyde
Uniquely for an alkene, anethole can be cleaved to anisaldehyde by chromic acid:

http://www.scien ...
27-4-2021 at 17:45
by: clearly_not_atara
Preparation of elemental phosphorus
See ref for LiCl-KCl eutectic production reference:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1. ...
27-4-2021 at 10:14
by: clearly_not_atara
Preparation of elemental phosphorus
njl: You've used a density of 1 for the molten salt (I said "liter", you said "kilogram"), which is ...
27-4-2021 at 09:04
by: clearly_not_atara
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