Magnesium chloride, reaction with sodium

Butyroin has been prepared by reductive condensation of ethyl butyrate with sodium in xylene, or with sodium in the presence of chloro-trimethylsilane. and by reduction of 4,5-octanedlone with sodium l-benzyl-3-carbamoyl-l,4-dihydropyridine-4-sulfinate in the presence of magnesium chloride or with thiophenol in the presence of iron polyphthalocyanine as electron transfer agent.This acyloin has also been obtained by oxidation of (E)-4-octene with potassium permanganate and by reaction of... 

Many high explosives can be synthesized from the reaction of picryl chloride with various nucleophiles. 2,2, 4,4, 6,6 -Hexanitrodiphenylsulfide (10) can be prepared from the reaction of picryl chloride (87) with sodium thiosulfate in ethanol solution in the presence of magnesium carbonate. Oxidation of (10) with fuming nitric acid forms 2,2, 4,4, 6,6 -hexanitrodiphenylsulfone (88). ... 

A mixture of 153 mg (0.85 mmol) of olivetol, 132 mg (0.87 mmol) of (-i-)-cjs//rans-p-mentha-2,8-dien-l-ol and 200 mg of anhydrous magnesium sulfate in 5 mL of methylene chloride was stirred and cooled to ice bath temperature. Fifty microliters of anhydrous stannic chloride (0.111 g, 0.4 mmol) was added and stirring and cooling was continued. After 10 minutes, the reaction mixture was analyzed by gas-liquid chromatography and shown to contain 30 percent of (-)-6a,10a- rans-l-hydroxy-3-n-pentyl-6,6,9-trimethyl-6a,7,8,10a-tetrahydrodibenzo[b,d]pyran. After quenching the reaction with sodium carbonate, the desired compound can be isolated from the reaction mixture. 

ZINC CYANIDE (557-21-1) Zn(CN)j Noncombustible solid. May tend to be an unstable explosive. Reacts with acids, acid fumes, acid salts, or elevated temperatures releases flammable and poisonous hydrogen cyanide gas. Can react violently with magnesium (incandescence), chlorates, nitrates, perchlorates. Incompatible with nitrites, chlorates. Mixtures of metal cyanides with metal chlorates, nitrates, nitrites, or perchlorates may cause violent explosions. Incompatible with strong oxidizers, bromine, chlorine, fluorine, mercurous chloride, nitric acid. Violent reaction with sodium nitrite. Forms sensitive explosive mixtures with potassium chlorate. ZINC DIACETATE (557-34-6 5970-45-6, dihydrate) Zn(C2H302)2 Noncombustible... 

BARIUM CYANIDE (542-62-1) Violent reaction with sodium nitrite. Reacts, possibly violently, with metal chlorates, fluorine, magnesium, mercurous chloride, nitrates, nitrites, nitric acid, perchlorates, strong oxidizers. Forms sensitive explosive mixtures with potassium chlorate. Corrosive to metals, especially in the presence of moisture. 

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