NileRed - 2016-08-03
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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CPwmXnihkk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Merch - https://nilered.tv/store ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ■ NileRed is now available on Nebula! https://go.nebula.tv/nilered (when signing up with this link, a portion of your membership directly supports the channel) Join the community: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/nilered Discord - https://discord.com/invite/3BT6UHf NileRed Newsletter - https://nile.red/home#newsletter You can also find me here: Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/NileRed2 Instagram - https://m.instagram.com/nile.red Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/NileRed2 Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA Assistant Editor: Chanel Brun-Soroka
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😬
8:28 GO LITTLE ANT BE THE STAR OF THE SHOW FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!!!
YES
It's a spider :P
Lol
Thanks ants.
Thants.
Yes
Maybe some Tischenko reactions? Benzyl benzoate, ethyl acetate, methyl formate... All interesting aromas ;-)
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I love your chemistry so much :)
Chemistry ftw
Maybe use it in an Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction using an aldehyde and a ketone to show that they can be separated using the process due to its chemoselectivity? Which specific ones I couldn't say, as this is more of an "oooh, science!" sort of thing for me, rather than any specific knowledge. ^^;
man keep it up, your making me love chemistry! cant wait to take it in school, so how effectify will it be as a bug repellent/attractor?
+The Reeper I really want to try making the 1-octen-3-ol to make a bug zapper with it as the bait
Just realized you have something similar to NurdRage.
You both are chemists, and your initials are NR.
NurdRage is LESS cool.
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.
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-
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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8:26 BREEEAAACH
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!
8:30 tiny science spider joins the party
You should do a colab video with NurdRage. Have a good summer!
You can use the aluminium isopropoxide also in zeolite synthesis as an aluminium source.
I like that spider in the back ground XD is the spider wearing safety glasses and gloves?
When you make the 1-octen-3-ol I'd love to see a test to see how well it attracts biting insects!
What is the boiling point of aluminum isopropoxide
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?
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.
Amazing how much better these old videos look because they are in 4k. Why are the new videos only in 1080p?
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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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
8:28 I’m just now noticing the spider crawling along the wall on the right hand side near the glass stopper
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.
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!
Great vid as always, thumbs up for the reaction names alone.
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
does chopping the aluminium pieces up actually have a meaningful increase in the reaction rate? you're just exposing more edges on the foil, which has a negligible contribution to the surface area
8:30 its already working!! ;)
lol that little spider at 08:38
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
Great video and congrats on the 93% Yield!
12:26, I like your polyethylene bottle with the blue cap.
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!
Shout out to the spider in the first half of the distillation, crawling behind the flask on the background.
It’s a little late to point out, but if you put the cut aluminum squares in a hand held coffee grinder for a few seconds you get foil granules that react in a mellow way, and can be funneled.
heat guns are good for making grilled cheese too
and warm up cold pizza
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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.
Making aluminum isopropoxide at home? That's isopreposterous!
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😊
I have a request. Can you do some actual experiments? As in asking a question and then testing it out rather than demonstrating how to make a chemical. Chemplayer did some things like this, the latest one was testing if aluminum can replace red phosphorus in reducing secondary alcohols. Experimentation is a fundamental part of science second only to observation and I feel it's not well represented on youtube.
I always fixate on whatever little bug shows up on the backdrop and miss the next 30 seconds of dialogue.
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!
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.
Do you need to use mercuric chloride or would iodine alone be sufficient for the reaction to proceed?
It might be more satisfying to think of a hair drier as a bubble-gummer-grade heat gun.
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
Do it again with gallium!
if you'd remove the funnel you'd have a higher diameter to introduce the aluminium foil pieces
5:54 Says hydroiodic acid but is written as 3H2
EDIT: I have read the description now! Ups
@jaymeselliot8181 - 2019-03-28
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.
@spiderdude2099 - 2020-06-09
You would be surprised by how much Neanderthal-like methods are needed in the lab sometimes XD
@jaymeselliot8181 - 2020-06-10
@@spiderdude2099 i guess we still apes, and if it works, it works, right? XD
@nono-fb8tr - 2021-04-19
I'm losing my mind at your comment saying "tin foil" when the whole point of this reaction is that it's aluminum
@jaymeselliot8181 - 2021-04-19
@@nono-fb8tr tin foil sounds funnier than aluminum. Semantics aren't really something that bother me
@MasterOfPunpets - 2021-05-06
@@jaymeselliot8181 I respect that you're still coming back to this thread 2 years later