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2cman
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nitrostyrene help
Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:35 pm |
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hello all.
been a lurker here for quite some time, and im in a tight problem.
i folowed the ethylenediammonium route to 2,5-dimethoxy-nitrostyrene ala rhodium :
I took ethylenediamine (98% commercial) and dripped in it GAA.
once all done, and xtalization seemed complete, i vacuum filtered, washed with ether, and cold methanol, and vacuum dried.
then 9g of EDDA, 83.1g dimethoxybenzaldehyde (98% commercial) were placed in 400ml ipa and warmed and stirred gently to get a clear solution. the solution didnt get clear even after 1 hour, an i accidently scorched a bit (just a bit) since i forgot the hot plate was on, and placed the earlewnmayer straight on the plate at first.
anyway i said, that if not all dissolve then not all dissolve and i added 36g nitromethane and stirred for 1 hour.
after 1 hour i filtered a bit to try to get the unsolubles out, but the formed nitrostyrene (which is in oil form) isnt soluble in ipa either so i cant filter the unsolubles out.
How can i clean the nitrostyrene? do i must need to distill?
I will wait till all nitrostyrene xtalize, and then see what to do.
probably it is contaminated with the benzaldehyde (and soe scorched benzaldehdyde)....
please help with advise... |
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2cman
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re: nitrostyrene help
Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:37 pm |
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ahhh. bump? anyone? help? |
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Harmonia
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re: nitrostyrene help
Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:06 pm |
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http://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/edda.html
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2,5-Dimethoxybenzaldehyde (83.1g, 500 mmol) and ethylenediammonium diacetate (9.0g, 50 mmol) was dissolved with stirring in 400ml isopropanol with gentle heating until a clear solution was obtained. Nitromethane (36.6g, 600 mmol) was then added, and during the next hour the solution turned a deep orange, and stirring was discontinued. The solution was then allowed to stand at room temp for 36h, and the orange crystalline mass was broken up with a large spatula and was filtered with suction until no more liquid came through. The crystals was then washed with 100ml cold isopropanol in the buchner funnel, and sucked as dry as possible. After air drying overnight, the crispy and intensely orange 2,5-dimethoxynitrostyrene weighed 100.5g (480 mmol, 96%).
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You obviously didn't follow the procedure suggested in the original paper, so read it carefully and try again. It takes some time, heat and stirring to dissolve the most popular aldehydes in IPA/methanol. And the nitrostyrene formed is not a oil, and should not be distilled but recrystallised from an alcohol (was it with cold water first, after filtering). Good luck! |
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2cman
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re: nitrostyrene help
Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:17 am |
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Harmonia, Ive followed the procedure quite nicely. and i also said that i left to xtalize, and will check it later on (after 36 hours like the writeup says).
Anyway, it did xtalize in a beutiful manner. i now understand the statement of "intense orange"!
anyway, i still think it is slightly contaminated with benzaldehyde, though probably just a small bit. I will prolly first rextalize from boiling ipa, then reduce the whole shebang, then try to to purify it further via acid/base. then ill see what happens.
The only thing i did which was differrent then the writeup is that not all of my benzaldehyde dissolved. If you think it takes more then 1hour to dissolve the benzaldehyde in slightly warm ipa, please say so.
Thanks for the help anyway Harmonia. |
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Vitus
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re: nitrostyrene help
Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:26 am |
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Don't rub your nose with 2,5-DMNS on your hands ![Wink](images/smiles/icon_wink.gif) |
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Harmonia
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re: nitrostyrene help
Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:58 am |
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It can take some time for it to dissolve but probably not an hour if you use slight heating and magnetic stirring.
I doubt your nitrostyrene should be contaminated with any considerable amount of aldehyde if you recrystallise it. And I'm definately shure that any aldehyde won't follow through the reduction process with a good a/b workup (alternatively distillation of the freebase). |
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Ephoton
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re: nitrostyrene help
Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:12 pm |
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not sure about dimethoxy nitrostyrene but straight nitrostyrene crystalizes on its
own in the freezer and if it doesnt you can use a very cold metal object to
start crystalization usualy took me two days. maby the two ethers off of the benzene ring hinder this though I am not sure.
nitrostyrene can be distilled under reduced pressure and I would say this would
also be true for the dimethoxy nitro compound. |
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Harmonia
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re: nitrostyrene help
Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:27 pm |
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I would strongly advice not to distill nitrostyrene even under reduced pressure as it most likely would decompose. Recrystallisation is more than enough as purification. |
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2cman
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2cman
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re: nitrostyrene help
Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:18 pm |
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sorry for the huge pics in the post. dont know how to link the thumbnails to the original pictures... anyway enjoy! |
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Harmonia
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re: nitrostyrene help
Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:48 pm |
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Looks great!
I love the look of nitrostyrenes.
Good luck with the reduction. |
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Ephoton
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re: nitrostyrene help
Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:02 pm |
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well as far as harmonia said on distillation this could well be the truth.
I have not personaly ditilled a nitrostyrene but have read of others recomending
it in the case of none crystalization.
do you think steam distill would pick up nitrostyrene without decompostion
harmonia |
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joe_aldehyde
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re: nitrostyrene help
Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:17 pm |
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heating nitrostyrenes far beyond their mp. is not a good idea, and afaik most nitrostyrenes/propenes melt in the range of 55-75 deg.c
stirring them with water for a while and then putting them back in the freezer after decantation of the water layer helps sometimes. swim found out that in his first experiments, the nitropropenes wouldn't crystallize since the reaction wasn't finished. |
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icecool
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re: nitrostyrene help
Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:27 pm |
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SWIM just made some 2,5-DMNS and here are the pictures, he's still waiting for 36 hours until the reaction is complete (at room temperature and no stirring).
After 50minutes spontanously crystals preticipated and it was already quite full of crystals.
Here are some pictures.
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