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bitter almond benzaldehyde
Why not have another shot at the vacuum distillation? I have a pretty good vacuum pump, which helps ...
16-5-2009 at 10:27
by: Arrhenius
NaBH4 ester reduction to alcohol ?'s
Interesting paper. Thank you. I'd be interested to hear someone's results with it.
16-5-2009 at 10:20
by: Arrhenius
bitter almond benzaldehyde
So what color was the distillate? In a vacuum distillation the benzaldehyde should come over as a ...
15-5-2009 at 11:04
by: Arrhenius
bitter almond benzaldehyde
Really, vacuum distillation is a slam dunk if your starting oil has a good amount of benzaldehyde in ...
15-5-2009 at 09:58
by: Arrhenius
bitter almond benzaldehyde
There are synthetic bitter almond oils available that are >90% benzaldehyde. I found it very eas ...
15-5-2009 at 09:14
by: Arrhenius
NaBH4 ester reduction to alcohol ?'s
OK Solo. First, that quote takes my words out of context. So thank you for that.

So let me retur ...
14-5-2009 at 22:37
by: Arrhenius
NaBH4 ester reduction to alcohol ?'s
Sodium borohydride in ethanol won't reduce your ester. I'm not well versed in its use in methanol t ...
14-5-2009 at 20:08
by: Arrhenius
Construction of a blast box
Most folks wouldn't use a blast shield in the type of reaction you described, which I assume is your ...
14-5-2009 at 19:54
by: Arrhenius
Heating Mantle of Hot Plate with oil bath
I second the notion for the hotplate with a magnetic stirrer. I use oil baths (silicone oil, minera ...
14-5-2009 at 19:40
by: Arrhenius
Homegensitate Synthesis?
Is this a paper exercise?

I doubt anyone would try to make 2,5-dihydroxy-4-methylbenzoic acid fro ...
12-5-2009 at 00:02
by: Arrhenius
Misconceptions of electrolysis
[rquote=152634&tid=12223&author=hissingnoise]Yes, even
There are very few, if any, neutral ...
11-5-2009 at 20:30
by: Arrhenius
iodoacetone?
Ya. I realized that boiling point doesn't really matter with lachrymators. I've used lots of aryl ...
4-5-2009 at 09:28
by: Arrhenius
iodoacetone?
I have done kinetics of the bromination of acetone in bromine:water in both acidic and basic conditi ...
3-5-2009 at 23:46
by: Arrhenius
iodoacetone?
Acetone can be halogenated in the presence of a halide & acid or base via the haloform reaction, ...
3-5-2009 at 23:30
by: Arrhenius
The short questions thread (2)
The o-bromo product is the "kinetic" product, whereas the p-bromo is "thermodynamic". Running the ...
12-4-2009 at 14:19
by: Arrhenius
Making mystery glass ware foodsafe?
Having worked extensively with radioisotopes, here is my thought on that. Very few labs use anythin ...
12-4-2009 at 12:12
by: Arrhenius
Finkelstein Swap?
In theory chloride to bromide wouldn't work very well. The reaction is entropically driven because ...
4-4-2009 at 11:12
by: Arrhenius
Large Carboxylic acid "construction"
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Starting from gamma-lino ...
24-3-2009 at 09:01
by: Arrhenius
Large Carboxylic acid "construction"
I was looking at gamma-linolenic acid as a possible starting material. Ozonlysis could get you to t ...
23-3-2009 at 22:51
by: Arrhenius
Large Carboxylic acid "construction"
Would you consider a relay synthesis from capsaicin? Heh, almost cheating, but I don't know what you ...
23-3-2009 at 22:23
by: Arrhenius
Basifying isopropanol
smuv: yup they turn orange/red.
28-2-2009 at 21:11
by: Arrhenius
TLC solvents
In terms of synthetic work, a 12cm long plate is pretty huge. I don't know if you're having to buy ...
24-2-2009 at 22:24
by: Arrhenius
At what point does Sulfuric Acid reach its lowest Ph?
Ok... nix my HBr example if you don't like it. It is purely conceptual that if you have something w ...
24-2-2009 at 19:32
by: Arrhenius
help with diminshed pressure distillation
Ahh, oui oui... trap for water. I threw a gauge on an aspirator today and got down to 400torr with e ...
24-2-2009 at 19:29
by: Arrhenius
At what point does Sulfuric Acid reach its lowest Ph?
Hm... I'm rather confused by your calculations. Also, in dilute solution, the assumption that [H2S ...
24-2-2009 at 11:05
by: Arrhenius
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