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a new sustainable polymer?
I was reading this review about polyacetals:

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2019/py/ ...
3-7-2020 at 07:57
by: clearly_not_atara
Guanidine
Found one:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US2464247A/en

[i]A mixture of 300 g. of urea and ...
26-6-2020 at 08:33
by: clearly_not_atara
Oxalyl Chloride Challenge
But "being a liquid instead of a gas" is the whole reason we use oxalyl chloride instead of phosgene ...
24-6-2020 at 17:32
by: clearly_not_atara
Acetic anhydride preparation
The idea of building a ketene generator with "minor lead-in costs" strikes me as a suicide mission. ...
24-6-2020 at 16:59
by: clearly_not_atara
Acetic anhydride preparation
[rquote=638561&tid=9&author=Waffles SS]
Or Isopropenyl acetate or Vinyl acetate method (i t ...
23-6-2020 at 20:44
by: clearly_not_atara
Oxalyl Chloride Challenge
[rquote=639048&tid=82462&author=mackolol]hoping that glyoxal will be formed in situ from eth ...
23-6-2020 at 17:29
by: clearly_not_atara
Oxalyl Chloride Challenge
2018 atara: lots of complicated ideas

2020 atara: fuck it just hit glyoxal with some chlorine and ...
23-6-2020 at 12:54
by: clearly_not_atara
Electrolytic sulphur
"Conductive sulfur" is inevitably on some kind of support, usually nanostructured carbon. These cath ...
14-6-2020 at 21:52
by: clearly_not_atara
Sodium cyanide dissolved in water... anyone with experience??
[rquote=638077&tid=155560&author=German]Even with lots of DMAP and pyridine I can't keep the ...
11-6-2020 at 10:11
by: clearly_not_atara
Simplest "power solvent" synthesis?
Dioxane is probably less carcinogenic than chloroform, if that's your point of comparison. Both can ...
7-6-2020 at 15:31
by: clearly_not_atara
Synthesis of benzonitrile by P2O5 dehydration of benzamide - another perplexing failure
As P2O5 is hydrated, it converts to metaphosphoric acid, which forms hydrogen bonds and possibly eve ...
1-6-2020 at 20:57
by: clearly_not_atara
Anti bike theft agent
The problem with this idea is that there are legitimate situations in which it would be appropriate ...
29-5-2020 at 07:01
by: clearly_not_atara
Most toxic compound OTC?
Without additional chemical modification, I think the answer is probably the americium-241 used in s ...
23-5-2020 at 13:58
by: clearly_not_atara
Question - C and MnO2 separation
Kind of a weird guess but maybe piranha solution would work? As long as it doesn't get reduced to Mn ...
19-5-2020 at 17:22
by: clearly_not_atara
Alternatives to Friedl-Crafts reaction
I'm pretty sure OP said "benzyl" ketones not "aryl" ketones so I'm not sure all these acylations are ...
18-5-2020 at 09:22
by: clearly_not_atara
Device that heats at around 40 degrees C?
I know it's not a real answer but when I saw the thread title my first thought was "a cat"

IIRC t ...
17-5-2020 at 22:31
by: clearly_not_atara
Alternatives to Friedl-Crafts reaction
Aryl bromides can be zincated in acetonitrile with cobalt bromide as catalyst. This is a bit nicer t ...
16-5-2020 at 17:23
by: clearly_not_atara
Free energy Idea, need thoughts
[rquote=636156&tid=155401&author=Fulmen]House rules:
Heads: I win
Tails: You loose[/rquote ...
15-5-2020 at 15:02
by: clearly_not_atara
Free energy Idea, need thoughts
Water electrolysis is extremely lossy in terms of hydrogen production due to Joule heating. It's not ...
15-5-2020 at 13:32
by: clearly_not_atara
Chemical uses for 3-MMC
It can be oxidized to isophthalic acid. Isophthalic acid is a part of the monomer for the flame-resi ...
14-5-2020 at 09:36
by: clearly_not_atara
Table sugar to Furfural
Just based on the geometry of furfural I would expect that you get better yields starting from a 2-k ...
13-5-2020 at 10:09
by: clearly_not_atara
Trimethyl Phosphate
I had another idea. Consider tetramethylammonium phosphate:
(Me4N)3PO4. The expected products of py ...
12-5-2020 at 19:37
by: clearly_not_atara
Table sugar to Furfural
The conversion of glucose to glucuronic acid sounds messy. Using sucrose will complicate the process ...
12-5-2020 at 13:26
by: clearly_not_atara
Photo-Birkeland-Eyde reactor under pressure?
None of that is necessary.

The primary loss mechanisms would be recombination of oxygen radicals ...
12-5-2020 at 08:24
by: clearly_not_atara
Preparation of elemental phosphorus
You need to review your understanding of the basics of chemistry if you think that diphosphoric acid ...
10-5-2020 at 21:35
by: clearly_not_atara
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