*hugs IQ*
*squeezes CBC too, /definitely/ not forgetting that:) oh hell no am I*
My day has been spent at first in the obtaining of my prescription meds, some of them partially forgotten, like my anticonvulsant. The one of four I need most. The rest, morphine 30s, oxy 10s and morphine 10s being the others, although these I have. I was given 7 short of my fucking antiseizure med and its a bank holiday so I cannot go bitch the surgery out. It SHOULD have been on my repeats. But not. They have been aware of the change for a little short of a month they have been aware it is meant to be on repeat without my having to TELL them to do it. It has BEEN repeating, so its not some receptionist's purview to fuck with that. I of course can cope until tomorrow and even if they forgot it entirely, I could make it quite quickly, I have the intermediate actually, in a vial in the lab.
Quicker to make the antiseizure med from it by a long shot than to actually do the prep work for its immediate precursor. That took most of all day yesterday and most of the night, from start to finish of the project for the intermediate but could could certainly do the chlorination step in minutes, because thionyl chloride is SUCH a fast reagent to perform many of the duties requested of it, it fumes, it stinks and gives off some pretty vile, stinky, acidic-type corrosive gases of a moderately toxic nature (sulfur dioxide, irritant and tends to rust metals fairly quickly too, annoying when spilling for ex. bisulfite solution on a sink countertop haha, my old man looked at the brown then dried and looking like dust patch and was enquiring as to whether or not it was anything he need to worry about and any toxicity. But no it was just rusting of the metal in the sink from a splash of saturated bisulfite solution, which too gives off sulfur dioxide somewhat, and is acidic, haha that saturated soln....sink bowl did NOT like that!:P
The other byproduct of the SOCl2 (thionyl chloride) is of course, hydrochloric acid gas fumes. But the byproducts being HCl(g) and SO2, both are gaseous, which gives SOCl2 the wonderful property of allowing one to easily strip every trace of it from the post reaction workup by merely boiling it off to expel the gases, or if its sensitive, to give it a light vacuum which will lower the solubility and boil things off at far lower temperature.
