Got to order some gas taps in 24/40 joint size/taper, some teflon tubing and both some xylene (a solvent very similar to toluene or benzene) and some 85% phosphoric acid, to be used for making triphenylphosphonium bromide as this triphenylphosphonium halide decomposes when heated to temperature at which xylene refluxes giving one back one's triphenylphosphine for regeneration, and then the gas passed into both anhydrous glacial acetic acid and anhydrous propionic acids for use.
Although I've got to buy a replacement 2liter erlenmeyer flask that broke when vacuum filtration of the project's feedstock was being isolated too
Could do with some chloroform, I'm out and I don't want to piss about with huge solvent volumes when making it via a haloform reaction (acetone and hypochlorite/other hypohalite bleach can be reacted to make chloroform as well as bromoform or iodoform)
Haloform reaction smells nasty and takes up lots of space,gets very hot too. And yields based on acetone aren't great. So I think I might buy some, got someone who will trade me some nitroethane (I've no problem obtaining it, although its highly watched via many sources) in exchange for both some benzene and a liter of chloroform)
Might go that way, and in the meantime, use dichloromethane instead as solvent, since its similar in properties to CHCl3 in a great number of ways).
Should really add some more dichloromethane to my shopping list, as I do use lots of it, I redistill my used dichlor, and recycle it but some inevitably evaporates, and I do use a LOT of dichlor, so another 20 liters plus the same of acetone and xylene are in order methinks. Could do with some more toluene too, only have one liter left, and maybe treat myself to some DMF (dimethyl formamide) while I'm at it. Hm...maybe some conc. formic and some more glacial acetic acid, will need the propionic acid for my test process there too. And gas taps. Can never have too many gas taps
