timsong (Hive Bee) 12-20-01 23:51 No 249367 |
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After dreaming about the possibility of using ethylamine as a more temperature friendly ammonia replacement in a birchy type reaction. I thought I would post a possible otc route for this compound to get some bees buzzing. Ethylamine can be obtained by the action of ammonia on an alkyl halide C2H5Cl + NH3 > C2H5NH3Cl C2H5NH3Cl + NH3 <> C2H5NH2 + NH4Cl This reaction is general but has the disadvantage that higher substitution also occurs, giving also seconadary and tertiary amines. But this is no problem with (X)Ethylamines as they can be easily seperated by distillation Boiling Points Ethylamine : 16.6c Diethylamine : 56c Triethylamine : 89.5c With no reference to a laboratory precedure at hand, I can only assume that the setup would just require a calculated amount of dry ammonia gas to be passed through a cooled amount of ethylchloride, I may assume wrong though, this is where I could do with some other bee's input. Is this only a dream ? |
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goiterjoe (Hive Addict) 12-20-01 23:56 No 249371 |
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I wonder if refluxing ethyl chloride in ammonium chloride will produce ethylamine and chlorine gas. Supposedly this works when using iodine as the halogen, but I'm not sure about how it works for bromine and chlorine. Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? |
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bujinkan (Hive Bee) 12-21-01 00:06 No 249375 |
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Post 246545 (Rhodium: "Re: diethylamine", Chemicals & Equipment) rhodium mentions something like this |
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timsong (Hive Bee) 12-21-01 00:13 No 249377 |
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Umm, Rhodium mentions the procedure with iodine/bromine as the halide. It's what would happen if chlorine was the halide, I'm worried that the reactin may be too vigourous*, but conversion of the chloride to bromide/iodide can't be too much of a headache. NaBr + C2H5Cl > NaCl + C2H5Br ?????????? *Actually, what am I talking about, the chloride may be less reactive than the bromine, looking at other alkyl halide reactions |
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Rhodium (Chief Bee) 12-21-01 02:05 No 249412 |
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You want to use ammonia in an alcohol, not ammonium chloride. This is the very same reaction as the one with bromosafrole -> MDA, just follow those descriptions, and use more ethyl chloride. |
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Bwiti (PVC-Analog Taste-Tester) 12-21-01 07:48 No 249483 |
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If nitroethane's reacted with Al/Hg to produce ethylamine, is there a chance that triethylamine will be created? Btw, ethylamine hydrochloride's a bitch to keep dry. Love my country. Fear my government. |
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Osmium (Stoni's sexual toy) 12-21-01 11:22 No 249522 |
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> If nitroethane's reacted with Al/Hg to produce > ethylamine, is there a chance that triethylamine will be > created? No. If I hear about bees reducing nitroethane to produce ethylamine I will personally cut their genitals off. I cannot condone such blasphemy. Not in my forum. |
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Antoncho (Official Hive Translator) 12-21-01 12:46 No 249530 |
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timsong (Hive Bee) 12-21-01 15:46 No 249555 |
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Looking at these amines and ethylchloride, it seems that none of them really readily react with water (amines will dissolve in it). As Rhodium said "use ammonia in an alcohol", this seems the answere, and from what it seems the alcohol would not have to be anhydrous. I'm not saying that the reaction could be done with ammonia vodka (maybe it could ?), as thats just too crude, but say recitified spirit could be used, as the alcohol(h20) is mearly being used as a solvent for the ethyl chloride and the ammonia. I know a man who will try this in the new year, probably with Ammonia IPA. I wait to hear his results |
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timsong (Hive Bee) 12-21-01 15:57 No 249559 |
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Oh sorry, my brains not awake yet. If their is too much water in the alcohol it will throw the ethylchloride out of solution. |
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Rhodium (Chief Bee) 12-21-01 15:59 No 249561 |
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Antoncho: Yes, you can make MeBr that way, but it is a gas, and thus difficult to handle. |
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goiterjoe (Hive Addict) 12-21-01 17:15 No 249578 |
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the reaction I mentioned came from the merck index. I'm not sure of the specifics of it though. It said ethylamine can be produced by reacting ethyl iodide with ammonium iodide. Sounds simple enough, except that it's a lot easier to get ammonium chloride. I thought about doing a ethylamine birch once, but temporarily gave up on the idea due to not having an open space to do it in outside, and ethylamine is very flammable and I didn't want to take the risk of dropping an alkali metal into it if there was any water present. Where I am, it's extremely humid all the time, and this could pose a serious problem. Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? |
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Osmium (Stoni's sexual toy) 12-21-01 17:47 No 249585 |
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> It said ethylamine can be produced by reacting ethyl > iodide with ammonium iodide. Make that NH3 and ethyl iodide and it will work. BUT! You guys better break out the pocket calculator and check prices for iodine compounds. To produce 1mole = 155g Et-I you will need 1mole = 126g iodine or a similar iodide source (generously assuming 100% yields). Those 155g Et-I will convert into 45g EtNH2(again assuming 100% yield). Same applies to bromine, which is not as costly as iodine but still not cheap either. The bromine compounds will even be more volatile and a bit less reactive. Even if you figure out a way to recycle all the chems this will be a very costly and tedios synth. It might be worth it for EtNH2 as a MDE precursor, but as a Birch reaction solvent??? That will be the most expensive meth you ever produced! And don't forget to add your time into the calculation, even if you assume at's all a hobby and you don't earn much as a janitor anyway. Not everything that is theoretically doable and looks good on paper also makes sense in real life! |
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goiterjoe (Hive Addict) 12-21-01 19:38 No 249600 |
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that was the whole point of questioning if the reaction would take place if ethyl chloride was substituted instead. Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? |
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Aurelius (Hive Bee) 12-21-01 23:11 No 249629 |
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although ethyl chloride would normally be the alkyl of choice for our purposes (Cl sources are easier than I or Br because of price or availability) aurelius does not think this to be the case here. ethyl chloride evaporates to quickly to be of practical use (without allowing for gas phase reactions) |
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