The Vespiary
The Hive => Chemicals & Equipment => Topic started by: Ed_Bullwinkle on March 19, 2003, 03:40:00 AM
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Today I checked the shelfs of 2 of the US's biggest Hardware Depots and I didn't find any toluene.
Not stores or Companies,,, but what are some sources for toluene. No I dont want a substitute,
Not unless it's an EasyOTC purchase and the substitution has paths that lead to a useful Benzaldehyde.
Ed
.... UTFSE.. yeah yeah I get so lazy, so fast.
I found local OTC toluene as 'rubber raft cleaner'
1 more Question:
can n,Hexane be converted to benzaldehyde, BenzylChloride, p2p ???
ThnaX
E_B
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Hexane can be converted to benzaldehyde as follows:
Buy hexane. Then, but it in a jar and leave it there for a while. In the meantime, buy benzoic acid. Reduce it with LiAlH4, and PRESTO! you have benzaldehide. Alternatively, buy benzyl alcohol. Oxidixe it carefully with KMnO4 and VOILA! you have benzaldehyde. Wow - the power of modern chemistry.
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ware o ware canst we gets benzoic acid? we get our non beeish friends to get it yes?
could phenol go somewhere with this too?
*cringes* I know I know utfse
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he reduces the benzoic with LiAlH4 whats even more OTC......
Benzaldehyde aka oil of bitter almonds will be easier to get as one of these, and whats about toluene + MnO2 + H2SO4 --> benzaldehyde?
ah, UTFSE!
anything goes
(if you don´t live on a jail island as it seems. Placebo must be warder as he never reports these problems...... :-[ )