Making aluminum isopropoxide
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2016
- Aluminum isopropoxide is important to carry out Oppenauer oxidations and MPV reductions.
To make the aluminum isopropoxide, I will use mercuric chloride that was made in a previous video. I will then carry out an MPV reduction using the aluminum isopropoxide to eventually make 1-octen-3-ol, something I have been working towards for a while.
NOTE: Around 5 minutes, I made a mistake and wrote "hydriodic acid" instead of "hydrogen gas"
Mercuric Chloride: • Making Mercuric Chlori...
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Senate Inquiry: "And what did you do the reactor next?"
NileRed: "I ended up just adding small amounts at a time, and then jamming it through using a pair of scissors."
Being the 69th like always gives a good feeling
@@aristotlefromebay not the 88th one though😬
The jamming of foil in to the flask with scissors made me laugh. Contrast is funny i guess. Delicate, specialized equipment; measurements carried out with care; erudite, organized explanations of chemical equations....then all of a sudden using scissors to ram bits of tin foil through a funnel XDDD i love your channel.
You would be surprised by how much Neanderthal-like methods are needed in the lab sometimes XD
@@spiderdude2099 i guess we still apes, and if it works, it works, right? XD
I'm losing my mind at your comment saying "tin foil" when the whole point of this reaction is that it's aluminum
@@nono-fb8tr tin foil sounds funnier than aluminum. Semantics aren't really something that bother me
@@jaymeselliot8181 I respect that you're still coming back to this thread 2 years later
8:28 GO LITTLE ANT BE THE STAR OF THE SHOW FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!!!
YES
It's a spider :P
Lol
Thanks ants.
Thants.
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Maybe some Tischenko reactions? Benzyl benzoate, ethyl acetate, methyl formate... All interesting aromas ;-)
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Just realized you have something similar to NurdRage.
You both are chemists, and your initials are NR.
NurdRage is LESS cool.
8:26 BREEEAAACH
Great vid as always, thumbs up for the reaction names alone.
Great Video Nile! Always makes my day to see something new of yours!
Great Video Nile! Always makes my day to see something new of your’s!
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When you make the 1-octen-3-ol I'd love to see a test to see how well it attracts biting insects!
Here's a suggestion: Make Aerogel! Alumina makes a nice aerogel, and aluminum alkoxides are the usual starting material. Also, you can build a small supercritical dryer using some heavy duty steel pipe fittings.
I like that spider in the back ground XD is the spider wearing safety glasses and gloves?
You can use the aluminium isopropoxide also in zeolite synthesis as an aluminium source.
Why do I constantly have the urge to drink everything you make? I just want to taste it!!!!
*dies of heavy metal ingestion*
You’ll probably die from heavy metal poisoning if you tried
p l e A S E dont taste it-
8:30 tiny science spider joins the party
The diagrams are very helpful in remembering the mechanics. Now formulas are written in quantum or we ran out of colors. The best parts are your input on the equation while watching a slow reaction going on in the back ground. Thank you.
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Out of curiosity, could you have used a mortar and pestle on the aluminum rather than using the mercuric solution to expose fresh aluminum? That's what I've done on magnesium for grinard reagents and it seems to work. Or does the mercuric solution continuously expose a fresh surface?
You should do a colab video with NurdRage. Have a good summer!
Out of curiosity i wonder...: if you had no hgcl but everythjng else, and something inert, like argon, could this reaction occur w/o oxidation layer forming that buffer on the al? To be more clear, creating an inert argon atmosphere, extremely freshly exposed aluminum metal, perhaps treated like sodium, so its kept under baby oil highly pure and sandpapered, then jhst before adding to mixture for reaction, taken out, washed with iproh and stuffed into the rxn vessel. Argon in there instead of air. And then no hg anything. I cant see why not, but i dont know enough about aluminum or hg
Do you need to use mercuric chloride or would iodine alone be sufficient for the reaction to proceed?
Great video and congrats on the 93% Yield!
If you add a ketone or aldehyde along with an amine to the mixture of mercuric chloride/aluminum/isopropanol, they will condense. I’ve actually used this for reductive amination before, and it is a pretty worthwhile method of making alkyl amines.
Would it have been possible to use HCl dissolved in the isopropyl alcohol to remove the oxide from the aluminum instead of using the pretty unpleasant mercuric chloride? I guess it would add a minimal amount of water, but it can't be that important if you're opening the reaction vessel without purging the atmosphere.
if you don't mind me asking... how much did I cost to get some of your glassware and other equipment
I'm doing an aluminum amalgam process.
But in my manual it says I can use H2O instead of isopropyl alcohol.
Can I really use water as a substitute in the amalgam process?
I read a book and it said that there is a substance (Antimony Pentafluoride + HF) which has a PH of -31 that only Teflon is resistant too not sure if it is true but could you do a video about the resistant quality's of Teflon.
Could this be used to reduce MEK into isobutanol in an ethanol mixture? If that can be done, you could remove the MEK contaminance from the European type of denatured alcohol which is pure ethanol, bitrex and MEK
Although I doubt you could do it right next to the ethanol...
What is the boiling point of aluminum isopropoxide
Love this channel.
what if alluminum foil be purified under innert atmosphere. do we still need HgClO2
I wonder how much of an effect the foil size is, since most of it's surface area is only on two planes. The addition of the cut edges to the surface area shouldn't be much in comparison? Though it looks like you folded the aluminum... I would guess that reduces the functional surface area from the flat planes until the process has progressed somewhat, while increasing the effect of the cut edges? Just an idle thought.
What happens when you stick a glass stir rod or metal spatula into the solidified aluminum isopropoxide?
I don't know if it might be usefull for you, but can you make a video on calcium hypophosphite? any info on it i tried to look up is very scarse and I'd like to learn more about it.
Looking forward for the Nitrous Oxide!!!
This!!
How do you tell the difference between something with a low freezing point, and something with a higher point, but a tendency to supercool?
Shout out to the spider in the first half of the distillation, crawling behind the flask on the background.
u should try making Aluminum Isopropoxide by using gallium activated aluminum!
If gallium is used, then gallium isopropoxide will end up in the product as well. Furthermore, gallium tends to stick on the glassware badly.
Twist the foil into 'ropes'...the Al ropes will stand up in the flask, only the bits submerged bits will react allowing some control of the reaction rate.
Tightly twisted ropes vs loosely twisted ropes...how fast do you want the reaction to go?
The number of ropes in the flask is another way to control exposed surface area.
It's fun to watch the Al ropes get shorter and disappear as the reaction progresses...easy to judge reaction rate!
Much easier to get aluminum noodles into that narrow neck!
I love your videos! I wonder if you could use aluminum dissolved in gallium instead of the mercury?
Yes, there's a synthesis using gallium on the internet
It might be more satisfying to think of a hair drier as a bubble-gummer-grade heat gun.
At 1:45, you said you would provide a link to how you can make iodine from tincture, but it's not there.
12:26, I like your polyethylene bottle with the blue cap.
I've looked at most of your videos and I can't see an answer.. do you have a video for some one that's just starting out. Like something I can do with my 5 year old.. just asking thanks
lol that little spider at 08:38
Amazing how much better these old videos look because they are in 4k. Why are the new videos only in 1080p?
is the Al isopropoxide flammable? it might be cool to supercool it and then have it freeze and burn at the same time
Hey Nile, when you make Nitrous Oxide are you going to use the Ammonium Nitrate method?
Is there some database somewhere that has a lot of compounds and how to synthesize them or what can you do with them or something
Can you consider doing a video on isolating/purifying citric acid from lemons?
cool, now I know how Nile red looks.
What can i use as catalyst instead of Hg chloride?
8:30 its already working!! ;)
I always fixate on whatever little bug shows up on the backdrop and miss the next 30 seconds of dialogue.
can you make zinc sulphide(glow powder)?
So this is useful when you have saffrole and methylamine?
8:28 _I’m just now noticing the spider crawling along the wall on the right hand side near the glass stopper_
Can you do a video about how to extract pure barium nitrate from sparkelers
Sounds like something Extractions and Ire would do
dude, i have to say that i hate chemistry with the passion of a thousand fiery suns but!!!!! i do love your channel. I have been through some chemistry classes in my college time and no one has ever explained thing as you have. please keep making your videos! you actually make things interesting by showing how and why things happen and their resolution. you do a VERY good job of showing the reactions on the "paper" visual scale within the video! again please keep them coming!!!!
Why not just add the solid HgCl2 straight to the 3-neck flask? You would have a lot more solvent to dissolve it, avoid the hassle and avoid contaminating an addition funnel.
Can you make Triethylaluminium from Aluminium Isopropoxide ?
Hii Nile
I am Rahul from India, I saw your video how to make Aluminium isipropoxide, really impressed with your experiment
I am also working in a lube industry and making aluminium isopropoxide using your video but I am stuck because aluminium foil is not melting in IPA not able to move to next step , please guide me to do further Nile ... Waiting for your reply
Could gallium nitrate substitute for Mercury chloride?
Could Mercury be substituted out for gallium since you raised the temperature anyway? Since gallium dissolves aluminium just like Mercury? Could be a cool experiment.
Yeah I have heard that gallium does work, but I've never tried it.
9:30 Isn’t the temperature supposed to spike when a fraction completely distills, instead of dipping?
No The temperature dips mate.
The head temperature stabilises as the vapors of-the fraction fill the distillation head.
The temperature then drops as the lower-boiling compound finishes distilling as the last vapours of the fraction exit via the condenser
This occurs before vapors of the next highest-boiling compound can fill the distillation head,
This in turn causes the head temperature to rise and stabilise at the current compounds distillation point.
I hope this makes sense.
I know it seems counter intuitive until you grasp the logical progression of the process.
I hope that’s right...
Famous last words
It’s been a long time since I studied this
Where's the link to the iodine tincture video?
Great stuff! I think I'll be happy just to watch this one rather than copy it though, mercury salts make me nervous.
How do you get it out of the Container again?
What was crawling up the wall at 8:35
Couldn't see a thing at some moments. Some darker or non uniform background (like maybe channel logo or something) would help a lot.
preparation of hypervalent iodine compounds like IBX etc.
That yield though.
Hello I love your videos there amazing
5:54 Says hydroiodic acid but is written as 3H2
EDIT: I have read the description now! Ups
if you'd remove the funnel you'd have a higher diameter to introduce the aluminium foil pieces
you + Old Nurdrage would probably rule intellectual youtube, wait are you low key Nurd Rage??
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and warm up cold pizza
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It seems to me, to significantly increase the surface area of aluminum foil requires an insane amount of cutting. The usual American thickness is about 0.0016cm. So on a 4cm square piece, cutting side to side, each cut exposes 0.0016*4*2 (sides of the cut)
==0.0128 sqr cm.
(4*4)/0.0128
==1250.0 cuts to double the surface area, if my maths are sane..
Heavy duty foil, at 0.0024cm, would require around 834 cuts.
Maybe a coffee grinder would do?
Anyway. Awesome videos. You've rekindled my fascination with chemistry. I especially enjoyed the rayon experiment, which I've always wanted to try.
Crosscut paper shredder
Do it again with gallium!
can anyone give any information on titanium isopropoxide ive become interested in the compound but can barely find any info on it
Sir what is the role of Iodine in the reaction
1-octen-3-one is also responsible for the "metallic" smell of metals
2:05 chemistry bong
You said sieves properly! I'm so proud of you xD
Why do you use aluminum foil instead of dust?
Can we use Ti the same way to make TTIP
Could you have used Gallium metal instead of mercuric chloride? The parasitic gallium alloy seems to do the exact same thing as the mercuric chloride, which is why you can react the alloy with water.
I've read in a few places that galium is useable, I have no first-hand experience though. I wanted to do it the classic route and it was an excuse to make a mercury salt.
+NileRed Cool! I may very well give this a try with some Gallium. Thanks!
Can react silicon tetrachloride and alcohol?
how come you didn't dissolve the mercuric chloride with the isopropyl before putting it in the addition funnel?
Antonio Rivero more glassware would be contaminated with HgCl2. Believe me, you really don't want this.
Could you use a gallium salt
Me, knowing jack shit about chemistry but just watching for the entertainment value...
"I ended up adding small amounts at a time, and just jamming it through with a pair of scissors"
I understand this part!
at 8:34 I see why you need the Insect attractant.
do you teach chemistry for classes?
I know this was a long time ago but it can be used to make Al2O3
How about making an aluminum aerogel with it?
At 5:49 i think you made a mistake: You've written 3H2 instead of 3HI or am i wrong?
You are correct, it should say hydrogen, but we all make mistakes
What ketone would i get if I used this in a reaction with isopropyl alcohol?
In theory, acetone. But since acetone is one of the substrates, I don't think the reaction would take place. Or it would get stuck in an infinite loop.
Edit: maybe it is possible to replace acetone (substrate) with a different ketone
can mercuric chloride be substituted for another catalyst?
Awesome video however!!!!
Yes, actually a Gallium-Aluminium alloy with more Gallium than Aluminium is sufficient.
Why didn't you just dissolve the mercuric chloride in the IPA before pouring it into the addition funnel?
John Van Vynck he did it not to contaminate other containers with mercuric chloride. Each container which touches a mercury salt must be washed several times and all the water from the washes must be added to a proper waste container. And washing mercury-contaminated glassware isn't funny. It's quite risky.
Idea: Isolate urea from urine.
Chemplayer has a video on that
The one "Piss Piss Bang Bang"? He makes nitro urea in that
Slarty they did isolate the urea nonetheless to make that nitrourea...did they not?
isolate scatole from shit
He recently isolated urea from his own pee!
Wait... diatomic hydrogen is hydroiodic acid?
I love... Umm... A certain synthesis route that requires this.... Using some synthetic perfume, and some tree bark😊. Maybe an extra 25 ml of PMK so you don't have to add any heat😊