Here's what psychokitty is on about, she said that I had told her the O2 wacker runs great in soda kegs or some sort of stainless steel vessel. I then said it only works well in glass, because the SS reacts with the suspension, heating up, polymerizing product, etc. PK insists that I told her it works in kegs, and then comes back at me with this;
But if your interested one experiment you described to me via e-mail through your rcdorks@yahoo.com e-mail address, here's a paraphrasal of it:
Something like 1000 mL of 1-alkene using a pressure of 120 Ibs of O2 in the keg. You described that the reaction gets kind-of hot and that your initial recommendation was to only use 40 Ibs of pressure and then work up to the full 120 Ibs in the last 12 hours our the required 24 hrs.
BTW, If the reaction vessel had indeed been a carboy, like you now claim, I can't reasonably see how it could hold 120 Ibs without your suffering a massive explosion with glass fucking flying everywhere like a low-yield grenade. Sounds a little fishy, no?
Just to stimulate your memory, this was around the time that SWIM wanted to perform your H2 pressurized catalyst reduction of eph_drine in the keg; however, you instead recommended the elimination reaction of the gamma-chloro-propyl-benzene using t-butylamide (I think). (For the longest time, I was confused because you wrote '3-chloroallylbenzene' and I assumed that you were recommending the removal of a chlorine atom in the 3 position of the benzene ring; wasted alot of time in the library on that one, but no big deal).
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Now, I did recommend using 40 psi in the kegs before, after some initial failure using the high psi's which some bee claimed he had succeded with. I recommended using 40 psi because I hoped that if the reaction didn't go so exothermic, there wouldnt be so much polymerization. Yields were obtained with the kegs, always, but they were never very good, 50 at the max on down to 35 (on a molar yield basis).
Now the second part of the message, mentioning t-Butylamide, and an allylbenzene. NEVER did I say any of that, the post is on rhodiums site and I'm sure you all know the mistakes pk made. The reaction was a dehydrohalogenation with K-tButoxide employed as the catalyzing base. That reaction works, and it works well.
After I got this, I basically felt like (1) I was being called a liar without copied posts or references (2) PK couldn't remember reaction details on another post, which was just a clear example of its inability to recollect the events properly. This pissed me off, and since PK had already told me it didn't believe me when I said I hadn't told it to run out and get 98% oxidation yields using a keg, I was pretty mad, hence;
"Yeah I lied to you bitch, so the fuck what?"
Confronted with no evidence, a clearly faulty memory, and an increasingly accusational tone, I snapped back. And I certainly don't regret it.
PS Here are two old hive threads which I referenced to her in my defense after the initial contact;
Post 107575 (missing)
(Player 19: "keg 02 Wacker", Methods Discourse)Post 107871 (missing)
(pHas3d: "Updates on O2 wackers...", Methods Discourse)