Funnels, Buchner separating

Crystal samples out of a crystallizer must be separated from the solution and dried. The separation from the solution typically is done on a laboratory centrifuge or on a Buchner Funnel. The separated crystals are typically washed with alcohol on the separation device and air dried before screening. Some products require special separation techniques to avoid fines precipitation or agglomeration during separation of the... 

According to Jander and Faber, as well as Jander and Busch, the first step in the simultaneous production of RbCl and CsCl from synthetic carnallite is recrystallization of the latter. Thus, synthetic carnallite (6.5 g.) is boiled in 2.3 liters of water. The hot liquor (d. 1.3) is suction filtered on a Buchner funnel to separate the solid KCl precipitate. The residue is placed in a dish and treated with 400 ml. of hot water to extract all soluble material. Next, it is washed on the filter with 150 ml. of cold water. While still somewhat moist it weighs about 1300 g. and is free from both Rb and Cs. [A sample dissolved in dilute HCl and treated with a silicomolybdate solution (see below) forms no precipitate even after standing for several hours.] The combined filtrates are evaporated until crystallization begins. The second synthetic carnallite precipitated overnight from the cooled solution amounts to about 2270 g. and contains all the Rb and Cs. The concentration of these elements is thus three times hi er than in the first synthetic carnallite. The mother liquor gives no precipitate on addition of a silicomolybdate solution even if allowed to stand for many hours. 

A 500 mL three-necked round-bottomed flask, a magnetic stirrer, a dropping funnel, a Dimroth condenser, a Buchner funnel, a separating funnel, and a rotary evaporator. 

This type of filtration is almost invariably performed with the aid of a Buchner flask and funnel, by means of which a rapid and almost complete separation can be obtained. The Buchner flask A (Fig. 4) consists of a simple thick-walled conical flask with a short side-arm for connection to a water-pump. Into the neck of the flask is fitted the Buchner funnel B which consists usually of a cylindrical porcelain funnel, the bed of which is pierced by a... 

Add 5 g. of potassium hydrogen tartrate and 5 g. of antimony trioxide (each being finely powdered) to 30 ml. of water contained in a small flask, and boil the mixture under a reflux water-condenser for 15 minutes. Then filter hot, using a Buchner funnel and flask which have been preheated by the filtration of some boiling distilled water. Pour the clear filtrate into a beaker and allow to cool. Potassium antimonyl tartrate separates as colourless crystals. Filter, drain and dry. Yield, 5 g. The product can be recrystallised from hot water, but this is usually not necessary. 

When the ij hours boiling is complete, preheat a Buchner funnel and flask by pouring some boiling water through the funnel with the filter-paper already in position, and then quickly filter the boiling solution. Transfer the filtrate to a beaker to cool, and then wash the insoluble residue of diphenylurea on the filter twice with hot water, and drain thoroughly. Cool the filtrate in ice-water the monophenylurea separates as colourless needles. Filter at the pump and drain well. Recrystallise the crude product from boiling water, as in the previous preparation. Yield of monophenylurea, 2 5-3 g. m.p. 147°. 

Allow the reddish-yellow solution to cool to about 40° and then filter off at the pump the polyene which has separated this filtration should be performed as rapidly as possible to avoid contamination with lead acetate, and a Buchner funnel of not less than 6 cm. diameter should therefore be used to avoid clogging the filter. Wash the crude production the filter with... 

The technique of the filtration of hot solutions has already been described in Section 11,28. The filtration of cold solutions will now be considered this operation is usually carried out when it is desired to separate a crystalline solid from the mother liquor in which it is suspended. When substantial quantities of a solid are to be handled, a Buchner funnel of convenient size is employed. The ordinary Buchner fimnel (Fig. 11,1, 7, a) consists of a cylindrical porcelain funnel carrying a fixed, flat, perforated porcelain plate. It is fitted by means of a rubber stopper or a good cork into the neck of a thick-walled filtering flask (also termed filter flask, Buchner flask or suction flask) (Fig. 11,1, 7, c), which is connected by means of thick-walled rubber tubing (rubber pressure tubing) to a similar flask or safety bottle, and the latter is attached by rubber pressure tubing to a filter pump the safety bottle or trap is essential since a sudden fall in water pressure may result in the water sucking back. The use of suction renders rapid filtration possihle... 

Method 2 (from potassium bromide and sulphuric acid). Potassium bromide (240 g.) is dissolved in water (400 ml.) in a litre flask, and the latter is cooled in ice or in a bath of cold water. Concentrated sulphuric acid (180 ml.) is then slowly added. Care must be taken that the temperature does not rise above 75° otherwise a little bromine may be formed. The solution is cooled to room temperature and the potassium bisulphate, which has separated, is removed by flltration through a hardened Alter paper in a Buchner funnel or through a sintered glass funnel. The flltrate is distilled from a litre distilling flask, and the fraction b.p. 124 127° is collected this contains traces of sulphate. Pure constant boiling point hydrobromic acid is obtained by redistillation from a little barium bromide. The yield is about 285 g. or 85 per cent, of the theoretical. 

Method A. In a 500 ml. round-bottomed flask, fitted with a reflux condenser attached to a gas trap (Fig. II, 13, 8), place 59 g. of succinic acid and 117-5 g. (107-5 ml.) of redistilled acetyl chloride. Reflux the mixture gently upon a water bath until all the acid dissolves (1-2 hours). Allow the solution to cool undisturbed and finally cool in ice. Collect the succinic anhydride, which separates in beautiful crystals, on a Buchner or sintered glass funnel, wash it with two 40 ml. portions of anhydrous ether, and dry in a vacuum desiccator. The yield of succinic anhydride, m.p. 118-119°, is 47 g. 

The p-bromoaniline separates as an oil, which soon sohdifies. Filter at the pump and wash with cold water. Purify the crude p-bromoanihne aa follows. Dissolve it in a mixture of 120 ml. of water and 75 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid, add 1-2 g. of decolourising carbon, and warm on a water bath for 10 minutes. Filter through a fluted paper or through two thicknesses of filter paper on a Buchner funnel. Pour the filtrate slowly and with vigorous stirring into a mixture of 60 ml. of 10 per cent, sodium hydroxide solution and 100 g. of crushed ice. Thep-bromo-aniline crystallises out. Filter, etc. as in Method 1. The yield is 11 5 g. 

Bromo-4-aminotoluene hydrochloride. Transfer the partially dried 3-bromo-4-acetaminotoluene to a 1 5-litre round-bottomed flask, add 250 ml. of rectified spirit, and reflux on a water bath until the sohd dissolves completely. Introduce through the condenser 250 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid to the boihng solution and continue the refluxing for a further 3 hours. During this time crystals of 3-bromo-4-aminotoluene hydrochloride separate. Pour the hot mixture into a 1-Utre beaker and cool thoroughly. Filter the crystals of the hydrochloride at the pump through a Buchner funnel and wash rapidly with two 50 ml. portions of chilled rectified spirit. The yield of the hydrochloride is 150 g. 

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