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Chemicals with a strong smell
The Mozingo reduction is a rather efficient "teacher" of how thiols actually DO smell that bad.
28-5-2016 at 07:48
by: Eddygp
Sipohn flow rate
[rquote=450185&tid=66363&author=blogfast25]
You can find a more or less complete mathematic ...
28-5-2016 at 07:46
by: Eddygp
Styrene to Acetophenone
Racemisation is all about creating a planar sp[sup]2[/sup] hybridised carbon in a reversible way. Ke ...
28-5-2016 at 03:00
by: Eddygp
alpha aminoacids
The Strecker synthesi is the classical approach, but you need a cyanide salt.
26-5-2016 at 14:45
by: Eddygp
Possible OTC, 'safe' methylating agents
Have you considered dimethyl carbonate?
26-5-2016 at 04:28
by: Eddygp
Motivation
making things that can do things, just for the sake of thinking about how you are an architect of th ...
26-5-2016 at 03:27
by: Eddygp
Al/NiCl2*6H2O: OTC hydride-like reactivity
That sounds brilliant! It's sort of reminiscent of the nucleophilic hydrides in NaBH4 compared to th ...
25-5-2016 at 12:23
by: Eddygp
Alkoxides from polyols?
Well, if you add a sufficiently strong base, like NaNH2, stoichiometrically to a solution of a polyo ...
25-5-2016 at 12:16
by: Eddygp
What are your desiccants?
MgSO4 in organic chemistry is just bliss.
25-5-2016 at 03:35
by: Eddygp
Chemistry of Terephthalic acid
[rquote=449677&tid=63196&author=Boffis]Hi Eddygp, I don't have access to IR or NMR so no, Th ...
23-5-2016 at 07:58
by: Eddygp
Styrene to Acetophenone
What is the problem with H2SO4/H2O to the (Markovnikov) 1-phenylethan-1-ol and then oxidising with C ...
23-5-2016 at 07:53
by: Eddygp
2,4-Dinitrophenol
1-fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene is so much more interesting :D
23-5-2016 at 07:48
by: Eddygp
Physics : Magnetics
Just to point out that a magnetic field has an effect ONLY on moving charges!! If you leave a totall ...
21-5-2016 at 15:28
by: Eddygp
preparation of α-nitronaphthalene
[rquote=449639&tid=66288&author=gdflp]I ended up with four different products, all different ...
21-5-2016 at 15:22
by: Eddygp
Chemistry of Terephthalic acid
Has the product been identified as terephthalamide? As in, has anyone actually checked IR, NMR or at ...
20-5-2016 at 10:43
by: Eddygp
preparation of α-nitronaphthalene
I mean, before recrystallisation the "extra" yield is not 1-nitronaphthalene, because otherwise it w ...
20-5-2016 at 10:34
by: Eddygp
preparation of α-nitronaphthalene
Very nice!
As for multiple nitration, since the nitro group is a -M group, maybe this would need a ...
19-5-2016 at 02:13
by: Eddygp
CS2 from C + S in a thermite
Heating C and S in a furnace under inert atmosphere would surely give you a better yield: S can easi ...
18-5-2016 at 09:53
by: Eddygp
2,4-Dinitrophenol
If you are willing to monitor an inadvisable intake of 2,4-dinitrophenol for the purpose of weight r ...
18-5-2016 at 05:20
by: Eddygp
Nitrites to Nitrates
[rquote=449310&tid=66229&author=woelen]CO2 used as oxidizer for nitrite? I do not expect any ...
18-5-2016 at 05:10
by: Eddygp
Nitrites to Nitrates
Oxidation of the nitrite with H2O2 under a CO2 atmosphere (and/or bubbling CO2 through it), with sti ...
18-5-2016 at 03:18
by: Eddygp
Testing Potassium Iodide
You can mix the KI with H2O2 (of known conc.) and sodium thiosulphate and titrate with KMnO4; compar ...
25-4-2016 at 07:13
by: Eddygp
Xenon and how does it work being mostly inert?
Only a few things can be less credible than this. Xenon can act on no receptors for a variety of rea ...
25-4-2016 at 07:07
by: Eddygp
Arkoma attempts 95% azeotropic EtOH
I would have added some dry (anhydrous) MgSO4 to the alcohol while distilling, as woelen suggested ( ...
25-4-2016 at 01:25
by: Eddygp
Preparation of (3Z)-4-phenylbut-3-en-2-ol
Or, as a trivial name, cis-benzylideneacetone.
It is widely known that a simple aldol condensation ...
25-4-2016 at 00:30
by: Eddygp
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