SnCl2.2H2O reactions

I`ve finaly received my stannous chloride today from a guy on eBay (Woelen knows the slacker I`m on about).

I decided to run a few experiments with it, and have some interesting results.

SnCl2 + Toluene, not suluble at 1`st and then a white turbid look appears, then upon heating (not boil) the turbidity goes and it turns clear again, and if you look Very carefuly you can see 2 layers, both are clear liquid at room temp, other than that, nothing special.

SnCl2 + Acetone, starts to dissolve right away and it clear, then upon heating (not boil) the acetone starts to distil a little up the tube, after about 3 sessions of this, the whole lot becomes white milky cloudy, and a white PPT can be clearly seen at the bottom of the tube.

SnCl2 + Meths (denatured slovent/fuel, ethanol, methanol, denatonuim benzoate and pyridine and some purple dye).
Instant milky color (like adding water almost), and a PPT forms also.
when the ppt falls it`s white and leaves a Pink clear soln at the top. upon heating more ppt forms and then refuses to settle again leaving the whole soln turbid pink.

that`s it for now.

add your own reactions/findings in here too if it uses SnCl2.2H2O, And any ideas of what you think is going on IN these reactions

edit: I nearly forgot!, as it`s a good reductor, I also dissolved some in Etoh and added a little 2,4,6 trinitophenol, it Did change color from canary yellow to a deeper orange, and upon evap of the alc there was no noticable smell and the color seemed to have vanished.

[Edited on 6-1-2007 by YT2095]

Good to read you finally received your chems. I'm still waiting , already for 2 months .

Dissolve some SnCl2 in as little as possible of water. You just need a few drops.
Dissolve some KI in another few drops of water, also make this very concentrated.

Mix the two liquids and watch the reaction. Best is if they are not mixed, but are allowed to run into each other, e.g. along a tilted glass surface.

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If you have some Pt-salts, SnCl2 also makes very interesting complexes with platinum, it makes [Pt(SnCl3)5](3-), a 5-coordinated complex of platinum (II), which is really rare.

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Tin (II) ion is a fairly strong reductor. Dissolve it in concentrated HCl and use this as reductor.



[Edited on 6-1-07 by woelen]

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Originally posted by YT2095 I`ve finaly received my stannous chloride today from a guy on eBay (Woelen knows the slacker I`m on about). I decided to run a few experiments with it, and have some interesting results. SnCl2 + Toluene, not suluble at 1`st and then a white turbid look appears, then upon heating (not boil) the turbidity goes and it turns clear again, and if you look Very carefuly you can see 2 layers, both are clear liquid at room temp, other than that, nothing special. SnCl2 + Acetone, starts to dissolve right away and it clear, then upon heating (not boil) the acetone starts to distil a little up the tube, after about 3 sessions of this, the whole lot becomes white milky cloudy, and a white PPT can be clearly seen at the bottom of the tube. SnCl2 + Meths (denatured slovent/fuel, ethanol, methanol, denatonuim benzoate and pyridine and some purple dye). Instant milky color (like adding water almost), and a PPT forms also. when the ppt falls it`s white and leaves a Pink clear soln at the top. upon heating more ppt forms and then refuses to settle again leaving the whole soln turbid pink. that`s it for now. add your own reactions/findings in here too if it uses SnCl2.2H2O, And any ideas of what you think is going on IN these reactions edit: I nearly forgot!, as it`s a good reductor, I also dissolved some in Etoh and added a little 2,4,6 trinitophenol, it Did change color from canary yellow to a deeper orange, and upon evap of the alc there was no noticable smell and the color seemed to have vanished. [Edited on 6-1-2007 by YT2095]

very sooty fire, and nothing exceptionaly acidic about the rest of the gases, and a silver nitrate test showed no chloride.
so there must be other junk in the toluene

also SnCl2 dissolves Very well in Etoh even when cold, heating changes nothing except temperature.

I`ve been reading the Incompatibilities list about stannous chloride, it mentions Nitrates, so next I think I`ll work with colored metal nitrate solns, Cobalt, Copper and Nickel, I think Ammonium Dichromate may provide an interesting result also.

Oh so pretty
https://sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=5390

From a really acidic tin (II) chloride solution

Does not look like a sponge, but if you make a handfull of the stuff and squeeze, it sure does feel like one.

[Edited on 7-1-2007 by The_Davster]

if you`re going to make Larger batches, you can exploit tins low MP, it`s Very easy to cast.
the way I made mine was to cut up an empty alu beer can into sheets, burn the paint off, made a V shaped trough, pinched the ends closed, loaded the trough with tin and then melted it.
you mow have a long ingot of tin that you can pass a current through in your chosen electrolyte.

let the electricity do all the work