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Synthesis and distillation of chromyl chloride
« on: April 27, 2006, 01:56:35 PM »
To cut a long story short, I decided to do some fiddling about with the Etard rxn, and did a nano-scale run using toluene, on the scale of a few hundred mg in total of CrO2Cl2, prepared in situ from conc. H2SO4 dripped onto a mixture of NaCl and ammonium dichromate, yum, tell-tale whiff of benzaldehyde.

Question is, I intend on upping the scale a little, and I am not at all sure how chromyl chloride is going to react on distillation, boiling point is listed at 117 C, although I don't know what, if any temperature it decomposes at, and what is going to happen to plastic tubing it would be distilled through.

Anyone with more experience handling the stuff than I do care to comment? I am more worried about how it will react with the tubing, than anything else, I should be able to distill it over into the recieving flask no problem, but I have no glass tubing, only plastic, at the moment.

Might just have to expose a cm. or so of tubing, and see if it gets raped or not :P
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Re: Synthesis and distillation of chromyl chloride
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2006, 07:49:39 PM »

Might just have to expose a cm. or so of tubing, and see if it gets raped or not :P


Interesting way to phrase it. Reminds me of my hold Halo days when I'd completely own people. Some people would call rape on me after I completely slaughtered them. To bad I lost my copy of the game.  :(
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Re: Synthesis and distillation of chromyl chloride
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2006, 08:44:01 PM »
I think theres a couple of hosts uploaded it to limewire ;)
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