03-11-02 08:43
No 280523
Oh ye, my beeloved brethren!
There's a question - alas, as yet purely theoretical - that confuses SWIM's mind lately. Namely, he has some photographic product that is called EDTA disodium salt.
Can it bee used as a substitute for plain EDTA (for Knoevenagel condensation of p-dMeO-BA w/MeNO2) hoping that acetic acid would convert it to free acid anyway?
Or would it bee more wise to convert it to its free form first - but how? SWIM would imagine that EDTA is pretty water-soluble. Can it bee xtracted w/a non-polar or isolated in some other way?
Can it bee air-dried? is it stable to air?
Thank ye in advance for all yer input,
Antoncho
(Old P2P Cook)
03-11-02 08:59
No 280535
Methinks that you are confusing EDA (ethylenediamine) which can be used as the Knoevenagel condensation catalyst and EDTA (ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid) which cannot.
(Official Hive Translator)
03-11-02 12:07
No 280598
Yep, Terbium, you're right - a pure brainfart on my behalf
Ethylenediamine diacetate, not ethylenediammonium tetraacetic acid
Not a slightest resemblance or hope to convert between the two
Sorry...Antoncho