having never used 15 micron foil i cant give you specifics... perhaps someone else can... but its not going to be a huge problem.. .you have have to do some small scale test reactions to see what are the best rxn conditions but you can handle that.... heres the basics
remeber al foil is used because it contains .. you guessed it... aluminum
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.... now aluminum is a realllly reactive metal and likes to oxidize to Al2O3 .. this oxide is stable and has no reducing power
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.... you probably no this... i hope im not been to boring.... anyway... obviously the alumimum can only form oxides in the presence of air (well oxygen)... so therefore only the coating of the foil will be oxidezed... the interior will be Al metal... or whatever alloy it is... look at surface area.... thin foil has more surface area per unit mass and therefore has less unoxidized aluminum .... so ... theoretically at least you'll need to use extra mass of foil to make up the difference... i supose you could mathamatically determine roughly how much extra you needed by deducing the ratio of the surface areas... but i wouldnt bother...
the alternative is to use aluminum from pie trays or cans.. this is really thick ... ie more al metal.. but less surface area for reaction...resulting in slower reaction rates... yeilds may or may not be deminished... ive read that they are... but i dont know... you will need to leave the reaction considerably longer and id recomend reducing the ketone addition rate accordingly... any reduction in yields i believe would potentially be over come by the addition rate adjustment.
so i supose my responce is... i dont know... and im sure you knew already the mechanics of the reaction.... id recomend a few small trials...you will get some yeild.... but with trials you can possible improve
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