Well terbium stated above that 15% sulphuric solution has a density of 1.102 and safrole has a density of 1.096. So safrole would float on the acidic solution. But what cheese was trying to say before is, his eye was not on mark when adding the 96% Sulphuric acid to the dH2O. Cheese will make up the EXACT 15% solution next time and see what happens (Without methanol!!!!)Thanks again. Cheese has a feeling that ketone was made. All the color changes occurred to the book(dark yellow epoxide, dark brown reddish krude ketone) and the smell is definatley of ketone, but still can't get a strong enough vacuum to distill out the MDP-2-P at 180°C. Would these color changes occur if the Isosafrole used happened to be safrole due to a failed Isomerization? How about if the Oxone was bunk Oxone? These color changes are related to the 2-alkene epoxidation only right?What cheese wants to know is if the color changes would happen with 1-alkene too, psychoketty was saying she had a failed run due to failed isomerization but the safrole was fully recovered, was the safrole dark brown after the H2SO4 treatment? Curiousness killed cheeseboy. Cheese tried aminating his first failed ketone run and nada (duh). But that ketone was greenish yellow, not dark brown (krude ketone) and was obviously Glycol.What a waste of cyano/aa. Cheese doesn't want to wreck the ketone with too much heat, all the water is out of the ketone and no solvents are in there either so a sodium metabisulphite addition will hopefully precipitate the ketone out, as a crystal or an oily mass.Cheese just knows there's ketone in there, because there is the same creamy smell as the MDP-2-P compton had which cheese aminated successfully. It's like a subtle safrolly type smell, much more pleasant, creamy is the only way to describe it in cheese's palate of words. MaDMAx says that bisulphite does indeed work and Strike said it works fabulously, but Strike's ideas haven't all been peachey keen.
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