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[*] posted on 4-10-2007 at 21:22


Hold the freaking phone everybody!! I did NOT use drain cleaner for this! I keep that as a drying agent.

Everything I used was ACS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The smells were, are, sharp, painful to the nose.. lachromating and also sweet above the ether smell. It is a complex, unmixed so to speak, mixture where you can pick out the separate notes and one of these is a lot like an anhydride and another is a lot like an ester.

what if overheating lead to a minor amount of acetic acid formation? from there we'd get esters and anhydrides ...I'd love to get on someone's GC/MS....

I know the sulfate is there but no idea what it smells like...
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[*] posted on 5-10-2007 at 09:04


Send me a sample, I'll run it.



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[*] posted on 7-10-2007 at 10:43


Well mine got to over 175 and I ended up with sweet and choking. I have it in a flask and will run it on my IR as soon as the sample holders and pens get here.
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[*] posted on 6-11-2007 at 18:14


Flash update-still haven't sent Fleaker the sample seems I'm out of VOA's. However I ran across a reactionm I should have remembered, the Fischer ester synthesis in which a mineral acid is used with a carboxylic acid to make an ester. So question is then, did the higher temp and strong acid lead to acetic acid formation and thence to ethyl acetate? Not as a major product but as a side reax. Have some pens on the way for my IR so maybe some hard evidence is in the offing. I do trust my nose though and I smell, anhydride and ester in the mix and maybe a peroxy acid? something very acrid in there at any rate.



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[*] posted on 4-12-2014 at 01:19
any news on this?


any news on this?
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[*] posted on 4-12-2014 at 02:23


There is an article in prepublication detailing synthesis of ether from ethanol, as well as distillation from starting fluid.
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