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Path to 4-Anisaldehyde
Cyanide is an especially weird poison because it is far more dangerous to some people than others. I ...
27-4-2021 at 08:33
by: clearly_not_atara
Path to 4-Anisaldehyde
Start with the substrate. 4-methoxytoluene is electron-rich and therefore easily oxidized. As such, ...
27-4-2021 at 08:01
by: clearly_not_atara
What makes liquor taste like rubbing alcohol?
IIRC, alcohol produced by the hydration of ethylene is legal for food use if it's pure enough. Behol ...
26-4-2021 at 10:57
by: clearly_not_atara
Hydrazine
I think you could make methyl carbazate via the reaction of hydroxyurea with dimethyl carbonate as d ...
26-4-2021 at 09:46
by: clearly_not_atara
Dichromate overoxidation
It seems like activated manganese dioxide would be the first port of call for indole-3-carbinol, sin ...
24-4-2021 at 10:52
by: clearly_not_atara
Preparation of 2-hydroxybenzylamine
The trouble with salicyl alcohols is the tendency to eliminate to the o-quinone methide. This is a r ...
24-4-2021 at 10:46
by: clearly_not_atara
Preparation of 2-hydroxybenzylamine
[rquote=658726&tid=157328&author=kmno4]
Maybe good old Leuckart would make the day ?[/rquot ...
23-4-2021 at 15:56
by: clearly_not_atara
Preparation of 2-hydroxybenzylamine
Hm, even better: Salicylaldehyde condenses with formamide in ~80% yields simply by heating the reage ...
23-4-2021 at 06:11
by: clearly_not_atara
Effecting a separation of two, nearly identical compounds
All of the commenters point to the same problem: ammonium nitrate isn't very stable. Normally, you w ...
23-4-2021 at 05:50
by: clearly_not_atara
1,4-Dioxane from Ethylene Glycol and H2SO4
Read the twitter thread. Prof. Singleton explains it better than I ever could. With pictures. See al ...
22-4-2021 at 07:49
by: clearly_not_atara
1,4-Dioxane from Ethylene Glycol and H2SO4
No, it's because the carbocation is secondary. 1,3-propylene glycol cannot form a secondary carbocat ...
22-4-2021 at 06:19
by: clearly_not_atara
1,4-Dioxane from Ethylene Glycol and H2SO4
^the reaction of propylene glycol is different, due to the much lower energy barrier for a pinacol r ...
22-4-2021 at 05:43
by: clearly_not_atara
Preparation of 2-hydroxybenzylamine
I must have been mistaken, because O-acetylhydroxylamine is unstable and rearranged to the N:

htt ...
22-4-2021 at 05:32
by: clearly_not_atara
1,4-Dioxane from Ethylene Glycol and H2SO4
Sounds like it worked out. :D

The other components in Liquid Fire are also corrosion inhibitors. ...
21-4-2021 at 17:46
by: clearly_not_atara
1,4-Dioxane from Ethylene Glycol and H2SO4
[quote]This took a bit longer than planned, so I ended up shutting down heat when there wasn’t muc ...
21-4-2021 at 16:06
by: clearly_not_atara
On the practical use of piranha solution
^on the contrary, I think KOH is preferred because it is less corrosive to glassware.

http://www. ...
21-4-2021 at 10:41
by: clearly_not_atara
Vanillin chemistry: 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine
The Nef reaction is the low-energy hydrolysis of nitro compounds via the dioxyimino isomer R=N+(OH)O ...
21-4-2021 at 06:48
by: clearly_not_atara
Preparation of 2-hydroxybenzylamine
Reduction of this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzisoxazole

[i]"Benzisoxazole may be prepar ...
21-4-2021 at 06:35
by: clearly_not_atara
Sulfur Iodine Methanol Reaction Failure.
https://drc.uc.edu/bitstream/handle/2374.UC/747827/The_Search_for_Sulfur_Iodide.pdf
20-4-2021 at 15:46
by: clearly_not_atara
Vanillin chemistry: 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine
The Cu nanoparticle catalyzed reduction of nitrostyrenes with NaBH4 is well-characterized.

Howev ...
20-4-2021 at 11:38
by: clearly_not_atara
Improved Purification Procedure Decarboxylation of L-tryptophan to Tryptamine with Benzoate salt
Acetone is a polar solvent, a hydrogen bond acceptor, and it can form an imine with tryptophan. Use ...
18-4-2021 at 11:12
by: clearly_not_atara
Extract phosphorescent substance from glow in the dark plastics?
It's practically always strontium aluminate, SrAl2O4. Iron ruins it. Unfortunately, many solvents co ...
17-4-2021 at 15:23
by: clearly_not_atara
Trying to get potassium permanganate out of solution, keeps turning to MnO2
The solubility of KMnO4 declines precipitously with temperature:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10. ...
17-4-2021 at 14:24
by: clearly_not_atara
Preparation of elemental phosphorus
I don't know what you mean by "small scale". It's hard enough to deal with electricity at high tempe ...
17-4-2021 at 07:04
by: clearly_not_atara
What to do with dimethyl sulfone (methyl sulfonyl methane, MSM)?
[rquote=658340&tid=157309&author=Texium (zts16)]Do you have proof that this procedure works ...
17-4-2021 at 06:49
by: clearly_not_atara
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