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Essence of Smurf reappears
Diazo compounds mentioned here.
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I obtained a beautiful blue compound by steam distilling the tar after a (failed?) phenol nitrosation. While the first thing to steam distill was
yellow, the next batch gave something entirely different. I suspect this can be a diazo compound formed by reacting p-nitrosophenol with excess sodium
nitrite.
[Edited on 16-5-2022 by Keras]
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Not the same as chemplayer's essence of smurf. I will add a link to his bitchute vid if I get a chance.
IIRC it was something of a toxic brew and definitely not something to treat carelessly.
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IIRC most nitroso compounds are blue. You could just be looking at something like 3-nitroso-p-benzoquinone monoxime?
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That could well be. If there’s any identification reaction you'd like me to perform on it, please go ahead by all means.
For the time being, I let the compound dry in a cool, ventilated place away from sunlight. Sunlight which tends to discolour the compound into a
blue/green/grey tinge (cf. picture). I suspect very few solid will come out of it, at most a few mg.
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Perhaps its indophenol blue. Try reducing the blue you have to see if it compares to the color of reduced indophenol blue below.
![bigindoblue-Capture.JPG - 37kB](https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/files.php?pid=673594&aid=93395)
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Quote: Originally posted by wg48temp9 ![](images/xpblue/lastpost.gif) | Perhaps its indophenol blue. Try reducing the blue you have to see if it compares to the color of reduced indophenol blue below.
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Interesting. I’ll try reducing it using sodium sulfite. Thanks for chiming in!
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