Hey guys, I haven't posted in a bit! I have been slacking a little bit on the editing and I have instead been doing chemistry.
I hope to get a few more videos out before the end of the month. Right now I have 10+ videos sitting on my harddrive...
I also just finished making 67g of mercuric chloride (HgCl2), which was interesting. I needed to make it to make 1-octen-3-ol a different way than I originally planned. I did make acrolein, but when I went to use it, it had all polymerized. I vowed never to make it again after the first time, so I am following the alternative method.
The alternative method is kind of cool though. It gives me an excuse to make aluminum isopropoxide and I get to carry out a Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Reduction, which should be interesting!
Nile Red
2016-06-17 05:22:17 +0000 UTC