Honestly I'd just go by the strongest bleach solution you can find in the store and then add acetone. To much acetone will react with the chloroform and I think it will form chlorobutanol so drip the acetone into the bleach solution.

considering you only might have accidentally made chlorobutanol with an untested method, I wouldn't go about trying it!
You could get something that is over chlorinated or chlorinated in the wrong places that could be one hell of a liver toxin. I think chlorobutanol is a pretty good liver killer as is.
I'd just make some chloroform the normal way with bleach, and then do base catalyzed reaction with acetone to get some nice pure chlorobutanol with a crystallization at the end for something like that.

Wouldn't 2 grams of chlorobutanol pretty much destroy your liver?
If you are playing with chlorine gas, you could just mix that with anhydrous ethanol and do a few other things to get some chloral hydrate. Everything needs to be really dry though, or it will fail.

http://www.geocities.com/nepalorganic/wwh.htm?20095

Reactions 5 and 6 seem like a very good way to go for chloroform. Any one have experiance with bleaching powder?

It says it right on the package how much hypochlorite is in them its just the other stuff they dont speek of. Good part is they measure it W/W IIRC so doing the math for just the calcium hypochlorite should pose no problem and you will get a very concentrated amount of hypochlorite instead of 3%-5%. Ill give it a go soon maybe tonight with acetone(no ethanol sobar sedits bord) like they said but it seems to me that chloroacetone would be a problem so I think Im going to just lead the contents from the heated flask right into ice water.

http://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/chloroform.html

This seems more up my ally then using buckets of bleach and gallons of acetone.

This is what I want to try by chlorinating EtOH

When chlorine is passed into boiling alcohol, both chlorination of the methyl group and oxidation of the primary alcohol group to an aldehyde occur, giving trichloro-acetaldehyde or chloral: When chloral is treated with caustic alkali, fission of the C-C linkage occurs, giving chloroform and a formate. Acetaldehyde and also many ketones, such as acetone, containing the CH3CO- group behave similarly when treated with calcium or sodium hypochlorite, chlorination of the CH3CO- group being immediately followed by fission of the molecule by the alkali present in the hypochlorite solution. The acetone method clearly gives a much cheaper product than the alcohol method.

So we feed chlorine into warmed EtOH until the correct weight has been gained then hydrolysis with NaOH. Products will be two useful materials Chloroform and sodium formate which can be made into formic acid when needed. This seems way more cost effective then the other methods using dilute bleach solutions. They say the acetone method give a cheaper product but i dont know if they are talking about quality or cost effectiveness. Either way I feel that EtOH should produce a much cleaner and higher yeilding result without using buckets full of stuff that needs to be chilled.

I hope I do to
I like chlorinated solvents above all else. They rip the fuck out of anything but yet can be used selectively also as long as you got the correct one. Best of all.....Nooo Fires. And when you go getto fires are always at the top of your mind because they can end a nice peaceful life of freedom.Im going to screw around with differnt ways and let yall know whats best... who knows it may just be the buckets of liquid.
Wish me luck.

Dryness should be no problem for me Iv been a dry freak sence I started Org chem because one of the first things I read was about how powerful a catalyst H+ -OH is. That an Iron can fuck up your whole day quicker then shit.

LOL honestly I have about a half liter of it but its about 40-45 years old atlest so opening it isn't on the top of my list. My grandfather use to have a darkroom so he has a stash of great chemicals around that they dont let me near to much because they had to lock household chems up when I was like.. 11. Hes old now and Im alot older. If i want them there all mine, no doubt. But using 50 year old chems scares the shit out of me a little.

Little bit a fear of phosgene, but since its Kodak which is commercial chemicals I dont think they would let it slip without stabilizers and such...but this is also many moons ago so god knows there standards. I leave his chemicals alone for the most part because I feel they may have sentimental value to them for him. his son died at 16 and that was there hobby so until "that" time comes ill leave them be because there not worth the remorse of just taking them.... ask for them and I could have them but I dont feel the need to. I enjoy making all my own chems from basic things. When the DEA locks down table salt I will still be having fun. Iv always been a chemist before a user so its all fine for me.

I made some sort of chlorinated solvent today but I cant confirm its chloroform until its distilled and a BP test is done. Acetone was mixed with 47% damp bleaching powder. A few drops of HCl was added causing a large release of Cl2 into the acetone. There was some heat generated but it was a small scale so very controlable with a cold water bath. This was allowed to react for about an hour or two and then the yellow acetone was decanted off into another container. NaOH solution was added and the whole mixture turned deap purple/red color(This could be due to trace nickle/copper chloride contamination but I dont know) and opaque. This was left to set for a little while and the mixture turned more of a yellow orange with a thick fluffy layer at the bottom... Well it filled almost the entire amount of fluid so we will say there was a thin clear layer at the top. After droping this in H2O it was clear this is some form of denser solvent because it formed beads and droped streight to the bottom. It has a sweet scent to it unlike acetone or chlorine but more like a sweet mixture of both. I feel that the chlorine in solution never really chlorinated much of anything and the addition of the NaOH formed a very concentrated form of NaOCl creating chloroform. This is all just speculation at the moment until its distilled and a BP test is performed to see which chlorinated solvent formed.