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High Yield Alcohol Chlorination Using Chloroform
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jacsat/1971/93/i07/...
Sounds pretty easy to do with easy to get chemicals.
I tried it by accident when I mixed chloroform and ethanol in NaOH and got very violent bubbling and an orange liquid. EtCl must have evaporated.
What could be that orange liquid?
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You may not have had the proper ratios of reactants, plus notice that the alcohols they used are better at stabalizing charges on the recting carbon
than ethanol is. So you may have had a different set of reactions running. Perhaps some acetalhyde wa produced, and it condensed under the influence
of the NaOH.
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Whatever it was, it was very exothermic and vigorous producing an orange color imediately with lots of bubbling. Someone should check that reaction
out.
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Alcoholic hydroxide with chloroform makes mostly CO, C2H4, HCOO-. Those gases explain the vigourous bubbling.
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