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Acetic anhydride preparation
Ok, I had another thought.

Suppose you gas HCl to a solution of succinic anhydride and GAA. The ...
14-12-2019 at 09:10
by: clearly_not_atara
Magpie has died
It's awesome that this forum can attract people like Magpie. He helped elevate the discussion here a ...
12-12-2019 at 15:30
by: clearly_not_atara
Disappearing omega-3's
Farmed salmon often have less omega-3 than wild salmon due to different diets. If they changed the s ...
9-12-2019 at 18:53
by: clearly_not_atara
Methylene Dioxy Phenyl Propyl Piperidine.
If you can make 5-iodobenzodioxole, conversion to the diaryliodonium salt allows an easy Stork enami ...
9-12-2019 at 16:12
by: clearly_not_atara
Troubleshooting Zn/HCl reduction of nitrostyrenes
So I know it's a bit haphazard, but I'm really wondering if anyone has tried adding a bit of CuCl2 t ...
8-12-2019 at 14:08
by: clearly_not_atara
H2SO4 on an extreme budget?
The reaction between H2O2 and SO2 is slow under acidic conditions, but rapid in alkali. It's difficu ...
6-12-2019 at 22:19
by: clearly_not_atara
What's the minimum concentration for h2so4 to be oxidising?
So my thinking here is, molecular H2SO4 is oxidizing, but HSO4- and H3O+ are not. We want to know th ...
5-12-2019 at 23:07
by: clearly_not_atara
Ruthenium too good to be true?
Ru is by far the cheapest of the platinum group metals. This price seems low, but not entirely out o ...
4-12-2019 at 10:13
by: clearly_not_atara
Did I accidently make Titanium tetrachloride?
Ti metal is very reactive when depassivated, SEP -1.63 for Ti2+ <> Ti which is comparable to t ...
28-11-2019 at 18:48
by: clearly_not_atara
Snowfall Amounts Follow a Weibull Distribution?
The Weibull distribution traditionally models "lifetimes" and things that act like lifetimes.

It ...
28-11-2019 at 09:26
by: clearly_not_atara
Lab reagent challenge
Um, ok. Let's go with urea -- I have to choose some kind of nitrogen source, and as long as we're as ...
23-11-2019 at 10:49
by: clearly_not_atara
sulfur monochloride
I'm afraid I'm pretty much quoting Wikipedia, which references Feher in the [i]Handbook of Preparati ...
21-11-2019 at 19:56
by: clearly_not_atara
sulfur monochloride
Se2Cl2 is [i]much[/i] easier to produce than S2Cl2 -- simply dissolving SeO2 in HCl gives some monoc ...
19-11-2019 at 13:22
by: clearly_not_atara
Stocking the Lab:OTC
Food: Brewing stores often have potassium bicarbonate and tartaric acid, used to adjust the flavor o ...
12-11-2019 at 17:53
by: clearly_not_atara
Dissolving a bit AL in liquid Bi-Sn alloy in place of using Hg-AL for reduction ?
Usually Al/Hg reductions are done in MeOH, bp 65 C. Bi-Sn eutectic is at ~145 C. See the problem?
11-11-2019 at 16:14
by: clearly_not_atara
Selectively complexing copper at low pH
I think unionized is on the right track here wrt precipitation. But Cu+ forms CuCl2[sup]-[/sup] in a ...
7-11-2019 at 15:29
by: clearly_not_atara
Formic acid production by electrochemical reduction of CO2
There are some simpler sounding systems that produce oxalate:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nco ...
3-11-2019 at 20:50
by: clearly_not_atara
Reddit: the word chemist is like calling someone a biolist or physist. Chemistrist seems more appropriate
lol buggers
3-11-2019 at 20:37
by: clearly_not_atara
OTC PTC?
Yes but no -- a conventional "soapy" surfactant forms micelles, which are oriented nanospheres with ...
29-10-2019 at 13:21
by: clearly_not_atara
OTC PTC?
Choline is not a PTC, no. It's not just too small, it has a hydroxyl group which reduces its solubil ...
27-10-2019 at 16:13
by: clearly_not_atara
OTC PTC?
Orgsyn for trimethylamine from ammonium chloride + paraformaldehyde

http://www.orgsyn.org/demo.as ...
26-10-2019 at 19:53
by: clearly_not_atara
Which should I use H2O2 of NaOCl to clean/sterilize virgin fibers/silk
Hypochlorite is more damaging than H2O2 because it has a lower barrier to reaction (activation energ ...
19-10-2019 at 07:42
by: clearly_not_atara
Konrblum oxidation of 2-(chloromethyl)-2-methyl-1,3-dioxolane
Some data on the aliphatic Sommelet:

https://pubs.rsc.org/-/content/articlelanding/1953/jr/jr9530 ...
17-10-2019 at 11:24
by: clearly_not_atara
Diethylamine Hydrochloride Synthesis
http://www.orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep=CV3P0820

[i]"Pure white needles of o-toluic acid may be obta ...
2-10-2019 at 20:00
by: clearly_not_atara
HVZ bromination with S instead of P?
It’s well-known that S + Br2 converts many acids to their anhydrides. The rxn byproduct HBr can re ...
15-9-2019 at 12:24
by: clearly_not_atara
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