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nitration without sulfuric acid
There are also ways to introduce nitro groups without nitric acid for some compounds. Nitroalkanes c ...
25-1-2006 at 09:15
by: Nick F
Book of the Organics
I recommend "Organic Chemistry" by Clayden, Greeves, Warren and Wothers.

It's 1490 pages of well ...
25-1-2006 at 07:28
by: Nick F
Chemical Storage Containers
Scary. I'm glad I [i]don't[/i] have that much elemental bromine!

Very cool though :D.
23-1-2006 at 09:23
by: Nick F
Hoffmann type rearrangement
That's a good point about the solubility of the amides (I wonder if a phase transfer catalyst could ...
23-1-2006 at 09:11
by: Nick F
Acetone Enolate
Benzene only becomes electrophilic when it is activated with strongly electron-withdrawing substitue ...
21-1-2006 at 11:39
by: Nick F
Hoffmann type rearrangement
Standard Hoffmann rxn looks more OTC to me. What benefits does this one have?
21-1-2006 at 08:27
by: Nick F
Acetone Enolate
Well, it depends on your reaction. Hydroxide ions will form a small equilibrium percentage of enolat ...
21-1-2006 at 07:40
by: Nick F
5-azidotetrazole synth gone horribly wrong
Ah yes, of course!!

No copper catalyst..?
19-1-2006 at 08:34
by: Nick F
5-azidotetrazole synth gone horribly wrong
Chris, aminotetrazole and a nitrite will give a diazonium salt, CHN6(+). Heating this at 80*C gives ...
19-1-2006 at 05:25
by: Nick F
Chemical Storage Containers
It seems to me that the cheapest and easiest way to buy bromine, and the easiest way to store bromin ...
8-1-2006 at 04:17
by: Nick F
Glassware
I've decided to sell my old assortment of odd glasswear and get some more, all with 24/40 joints. My ...
5-1-2006 at 10:21
by: Nick F
Platinum/Tungsten alloy
Find a small jeweller's shop, and ask them who they buy their metals from. Explain that you want to ...
29-12-2005 at 18:34
by: Nick F
Questions about working at very low temperatures
LOTS.

Making an air liquifier shouldn't be too hard though. All you really need is a strong air ...
29-12-2005 at 04:40
by: Nick F
Chemical Storage Containers
The only good bottles I've found for nitric are glass with ground glass stoppers. The container I bo ...
29-12-2005 at 04:34
by: Nick F
Got my first lab setup today!
And here's my latest piece: a 100mL pressure-equalising dropping funnel. These are good for two reas ...
29-12-2005 at 04:09
by: Nick F
Got my first lab setup today!
chochu3, you should really clamp the neck of your distillation flask too. If you're heating somethin ...
29-12-2005 at 03:51
by: Nick F
PYX
Yeah, that should work. Now, OTC pyridine and sodamide?! I think the diaminopyridine might have to b ...
28-12-2004 at 09:58
by: Nick F
PYX
Picryl chloride:

2,4,6-trinitroaniline --(diazotise)--> 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenediazonium anion - ...
27-12-2004 at 16:17
by: Nick F
FOX-7
Lol, I haven't done anything to my site in ages. No motivation, that's my problem. But tha ...
22-12-2004 at 05:02
by: Nick F
FOX-7
"A synthesis more amenable to scale-up involves the condensation of acetamidine hydrochloride a ...
22-12-2004 at 03:26
by: Nick F
Preparation of trinitromethane
Good to be back chemoleo! I don't do much online stuff while away at Uni...

Anyway, that ...
21-12-2004 at 12:26
by: Nick F
Bromine Source and Synthesis
Ah, I can't wait to get my NaBr! Lots of things I want to try...
Apparently BrNO2 can be made ...
21-12-2004 at 12:13
by: Nick F
What's the big deal with alpha and beta sources?
IIRC, I calculated the amount to be about half a microgram (L*T(1/2)=ln2, A=LN...). Or maybe I calcu ...
21-12-2004 at 04:59
by: Nick F
dibutyl telluride
Mmmm.... smelly.
Sounds toxic too, and I suspect it would be a terrible way to die. Perhaps it is ...
20-12-2004 at 16:18
by: Nick F
Preparation of trinitromethane
I'm not too sure about haloforms and nitrites. Firstly, if it was that easy then no-one would w ...
20-12-2004 at 16:08
by: Nick F
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