Swim wants to understand the ideal conditions within a pipe bomb for the amination of bromosafrole.
The question is this:
Swim understands the bomb should be stainless steel, small threads, cooked at approx. 130 Celsius for 3-4 hours, no solvent present from previous extraction ( to avoid explosion) BUT SHOULD WATER BE PRESENT inside the bomb? Some references say that the use of 91% isopropanol
Swim has a bottle of isopropanol with no percentage on it, can swim assume that this is 100%/anhydrous – it doesn’t say anything else But real lab stuff. Some method references say just gas the solvent.
Some background for swims question:
Swim wants to produce Methylamine gas by dripping 20% NaOH solution onto Methylamine. HCL crystals and then wanted to gas the isopropanol. How does swim do ones sums? Mols and stoichiometry and concentrations etc. etc. Swim feels the headache beginning again!
To be honest it is DRIVING SWIM F**KING CRAZY! QUITE SIMPLY swim has methylamine gas ( from MeNH2*HCl) , bromosafrole ( 50-100g), S/S pipe bomb, isopropanol (as mentioned above), methanol and a host of other solvents.
In simple language HOW DOES SWIM COOK THIS?