Been putting off doing the workup and purification on one of my lab projects. Don't really want to do it much, mainly because there are about 2 liters of mercury salt-saturated corrosive, highly toxic slops to extract 10g or so of product, if it performed well whilst the reaction itself was doing its thing. So a pain in the arse generally speaking. Would be far preferable to do it on a much larger scale using the same quantity of Hg, but I need to get bigger flasks to contain something like that, as this particular reaction gets HOT, hot enough to go right up the reflux condenser and require a secondary vigreaux column on top, and still go several inches to almost halfway up the 300mm secondary. Although I did have yet a third condenser mounted on top of that, which it got nowhere near. That was on a scale of just over 10g. 20 could probably be done in a 1 liter flask, with extreme care, but its somewhat of a scary thought even at that scale. And working at mini-scale extractions on large quantities of post-reaction liquid is somewhat of a pan in the arse
