Funnels purification

For purification, transfer the acid to a 150 ml. flask containing 60 ml. of water, boil the mixture under reflux, and then add acetic acid in 5 ml. portions down the condenser until almost all the solid has dissolved avoid an excess of acetic acid by ensuring that the solvent action of each addition is complete before the next portion is added. A small suspension of insoluble impurity may remain. Add 2 g. of animal charcoal, boil the solution again for 10-15 minutes, and then filter it through a preheated Buchner funnel. Cool and stir the filtrate, which will deposit pale cream-coloured crystals of the acid. Collect as before and if necessary repeat the recrystallisation. Yield of pure acid, 9 g. m.p. 227-229°. 

An alternative method of purification consists in dissolving the crude sulphonyl chloride in the minimum volume of boiling chloroform, transferring rapidly to a warm separatory funnel, and separating the lower chloroform layer upon cooling the chloroform solution, the crystalline sulphonyl chloride separates, and is collected by filtration with suction. A further quantity is obtained by concentrating the mother liquor. 

Purification of the Methylamine HCI is in order now, so transfer all of the crude product to a 500mL flask and add either 250mL of absolute Ethanol (see end of FAQ for preparing this) or, ideally, n-Butyl Alcohol (see Footnote 4). Heat at reflux with a Calcium Chloride guard tube for 30 minutes. Allow the undissolved solids to settle (Ammonium Chloride) then decant the clear solution and cool quickly to precipitate out Methylamine HCI. Filter rapidly on the vacuum Buchner funnel and transfer crystals to a dessicator (see Footnote 3). Repeat the reflux-settle-cool-filter process four... 

For materials with very low melting points it is sometimes convenient to use dilute solutions in acetone, methanol, pentane, diethyl ether or CHCI3-CCI4. The solutions are cooled to -78° in a dry-ice/acetone bath, to give a slurry which is filtered off through a precooled Buchner funnel. Experimental details, as applied to the purification of nitromethane, are given by Parrett and Sun [J Chem Educ 54 448 7977]. 

B. (l-Azido-3,3-dimethoxy-l-propenyl)benzene. In a 2-1., one-necked, round-bottomed flask equipped with a magnetic stirrer and powder funnel are placed 156 g. (0.45 mole) of the iodoazide from Part A and 1500 ml. of anhydrous ether. The solution is stirred and cooled in an ice-salt bath (— 5° to 0°), and 62 g. (0.55 mole) of potassium <-butoxide (Note 6) is added. The powder funnel is then replaced by a calcium chloride drying tube and the mixture is stirred for 4 5 hours at 0°. At the end of this time 350 ml. of water is added while the mixture is still cold. The ethereal layer is then separated and washed with three 350-ml. portions of water and dried over magnesium sulfate. The solvent is removed with a rotary evaporator without heating, leaving 67-75 g. (68-76%) of (l-azido-3,3-dimethoxy-l-propenyl)-benzene as a dark oily liquid (Note 7). This material can be used without further purification for Part C (Note 8). 

For purification, it is dissolved in 9-9.5 1. of boiling benzene (Note 4). The solution is filtered rapidly, using a 32-cm. folded filter in an 8-in. short-stem glass funnel. The recovery is 59-70 g. The fine, white crystals, which melt at 169-170° (Note 5), are stored in a brown glass bottle under nitrogen (Notes 6, 7, 8). 

The reaction mixture is diluted with 250 ml of water, the mixture is transferred to a 2 liter flask using methanol as a wash liquid, and the organic solvents are distilled at 20-25 mm using a rotary vacuum evaporator. The product separates as a solid and distillation is continued until most of the residual toluene has been removed. The solid is collected on a 90 cm, medium porosity, fritted glass Buchner funnel and washed well with cold water. After the material has been sucked dry, it is covered with a little cold methanol, the mixture is stirred to break up lumps, and the slurry is kept for 5 min. The vacuum is reapplied, the solid is rinsed with a little methanol followed by ether, and the material is air-dried to give 9.1 g (85%), mp 207-213° after sintering at ca. 198°. Reported mp 212-213°. The crude material contains 1.0-1.5% of unreduced starting material as shown by the UV spectrum. Further purification may be effected by crystallization from methanol. 

Pure Commercial Benzene, obtained from coal-tai naphtha, should distil w lthin one degiee (80—Si ), and solidify completely when cooled to 0°. Other tests are as follow s shaken with concentrated sulphuric acid for a few minutes, the acid should not darken, and a drop of bromine water should not be immediately decolourised. A single distillation over a few small pieces of sodium, which absorb any traces of water, is usually a sufficient purification. If the benzene impart a brown or black colour to the sulphuric acid, it must be repeatedly shaken with about 20 per cent, of the acid until the lattev becomes only slightly yellow on standing. This is done in a stoppered separating funnel, and after shaking fora few minutes the mixture is allow ed to settle, and the low er layer of acid diawn off. The benzene is then shaken tw o 01 three times with water to free it from acid, carefully separated from the aqueous layer, and left in contact with fused calcium chloride until the liquid becomes clear. It is then decanted, frozen in ice, and any liquid (carbon bisulphide, paraffins) carefully drained off, and die benzene finally distilled over sodium. 

The reaction product, which is a dark reddish-brown liquid, is poured or siphoned (Note 5) into 1.5 1. of water to which 50 cc. of a saturated solution of sodium bisulfite has been added (Note 6). The mixture is distilled with steam (Org. Syn. 2, 80) and the first portion of the distillate is collected separately to remove a small amount of unchanged nitrobenzene. It is necessary to collect about 12 1. of distillate in order to obtain all of the m-bromonitrobenzene. The yellow crystalline solid is filtered with suction and pressed well on the funnel to remove water and traces of nitrobenzene. The yield of crude product varies from 270-340 g. (60-75 Per cent °f the theoretical amount). It melts at 51.5-520 and boils at 117-118 79 mm. This product is satisfactory for most purposes. If a purer material is desired, the crude /w-bromonitrobenzene may be distilled under reduced pressure. The recovery on purification is about 85 per cent. Briihl recorded the b.p. as 1380/18 mm. and the m.p. as 56° for pure wz-bromonitrobenzene.1... 

A literature procedure whereby bromopyrimidine is oxidised by excess peroxy-acetic acid in acetone, with sulfuric acid catalysis, was being scaled up. The crude product from the fourth batch at two molar scale was filtered out and allowed to dry to dry in the sintered glass funnel over the weekend. An explosion occurred when it was scraped out to complete purification on the Monday. This was considered due to acetone peroxides, which had probably concentrated locally by wicking or sublimation. 

Through the separatory funnel are introduced 1600 cc. of water, 500 cc. of c. p. acetone, and 372 cc. of glacial acetic acid. The stirrer is started and the temperature of the water bath is raised to 70-80°, so that the mixture in (he flask is at about 65° (Note 2). Then 354 cc. (7.3 moles) of bromine is carefully added through the separatory funnel. The addition is so regulated as to prevent the accumulation of unreacted bromine (Note 3). The addition requires one to t wo hours. As a rule the solution is decolorized in about twenty minutes after the bromine has been added. When the solution is decolorized, it is diluted with 800 cc. of cold water, cooled to io°, made neutral to Congo Red with about 1000 g. of solid anhydrous sodium carbonate, and the oil which separates is collected in a separatory funnel and dried with 80 g. of anhydrous calcium chloride. After drying, the oil is fractionated and the fraction boiling at 38 48°/13 mm. is collected. The yield is 470 480 g. (47—48 per cent of the theoretical amount). It may be used without further purification for the preparation of acetol (p. 1), but if a purer product is desired, the above product is refractionated... 

All the filtrations in the purification of tyrosine, except possibly the last, are best done on a 20-cm. Buchner funnel. Whenever charcoal is used, kieselguhr may be employed to obtain a clear filtrate. 

Although this product is pure enough for most purposes, it contains small amounts of by-products which cannot be removed by distillation. Further purification is accomplished by the following procedure In a 250-ml. three-neckcd round-bottomed flask fitted with a stirrer, a small dropping funnel, and a thermometer for reading low temperatures, 24 g. of sodium hydroxide is dissolved in 80 ml. of water. While the temperature of the solution is maintained at 8-15° by external cooling, 45 g. (40.5 ml.)... 

E. Quench and purification. While the butyllithium addition is taking place, an acidic ethanol quench solution is prepared in a 3-L, two-necked, round-bottomed flask, equipped with a mechanical stirrer and a 250-mL, pressure-equalizing dropping funnel. The flask is charged with 1 L of absolute ethanol and the funnel with 250 mL of acetyl chloride. The ethanol is stirred rapidly and the flask is cooled with an ice bath as the acetyl chloride is added over a 30-40-min period and then the cooling bath is removed and stirring is continued for 20-30 min. After the main reaction mixture has been stirred for 30 min at room temperature, it is cooled with a dry ice-acetone bath. The acidic ethanol solution is cooled with an ice bath and the cold, main reaction mixture is quenched by addition (via a double-ended needle) into the rapidly stirred, cold, acidic ethanol solution over a 3 to 3.5 hr period (Note 16). 

Upon cooling to room temperature, a gray precipitate forms and the reaction is quenched with 220 mL of saturated, aqueous ammonium chloride. The resulting mixture is poured into a 1-L separatory funnel and extracted with 220 mL of diethyl ether. The organic fraction is washed two times with 100 mL of water, and once with 100 mL of brine, dried over magnesium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated under reduced pressure to provide 44.1 g of crude product as a pale yellow oil. Purification of this material by bulb-to-bulb distillation (140-145°C, 0.5 mm) (Note 11) into a chilled (-78°C) receiving flask yields 41.0 g (92%) of 2 as a clear, colorless oil (Note 12). 

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