Camphor Carbonated alkali

CjHjCljOj Noncombustible solid. Reacts with strong bases, amines, amides, inorganic hydroxides alkalis, alkaline earth metals alkali carbonates ammoniacal silver nitrate strong oxidizers soluble barbiturates producing chloroform and formate. Incompatible with camphor, menthol, or thymol. Contact with hydroxylamine produces poisonous hydrogen cyanide gas. Attacks metals in the presence of moisture. In heat of decomposition or fire, releases hydrogen chloride and other toxic fumes. 

Pharmaceutical Incompat. Alcohol, iodide, cyanide, permanganate, borax, alkali hydroxides and carbonates, lead acetate, monobromated camphor, Diuretin, acetophenctidin, quinine sulfate, salol, theobromine sodiosalicylate, sodium phosphate, urea, urethane. 

White, odorless Crystals, mp 131-133. Becomes grayish on exposure to air and light. Poisonous d 1.45 bp 309. Sublimes when slowly heated. One gram dissolves in 1.7 ml water, 1.3 ml ale, 1.6 ml ether slightly sol in benzene, chloroform, carbon disulfide. The aq soln darkens on exposure to air, quite rapidly when alkaline. Keep well closed and protected from tight. Incompat. Alkalies, ammonium hydroxide. antipyrine. camphor, phenol, menthol. LDH orally in rabbits 1.6 g/kg (Dollahite). 

An example of this type of reduction is that of benzaldehyde to 1-d-benzyl alcohol by a copper-aluminum alloy in the presence of deuterium oxide and sodium carbonate.Huffman et al observed that the stereoselectivity of camphor reduction is the same either sonochemically in THF or silently in liquid ammonia with the usual three alkali metals (Eq. 13),106... 

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