I decided to run my first buffered performic yesterday.
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Everythins was setup, and the performic was prepared by mixing 384g of 88%formic into about 232g H2O2. Left to stir, I left the room.
One hour later when i came back, the performic wasnt stirring anymore, my stirrer had decided to die on me at that exact time. I was bubblinb a little bit already.
About 15 minutes into addition it got real hot and started to boil over!!!Nasty smell and a little freaking later Im trying to understand what happened.
My first guess would be contamination of the formic. But the formic is ACS grade. The peroxyde is from a hydroponic store and it was stable initially.
I am hopping to rule out that possibility and replace it with the fact that the mixture didnt stir previously.
I really dont hope that the formic I have is useless.
Could the fact that not stirring the solution for an hour accelerated the decomposition of the peroxyde???
I dont want to stop this dream there, any clues?