You think the solvent is going through the cracking process in zeolite conversion processes, or all of them?
Any chemical process is repeatable. If you stick with good quality raw materials then you can do one extensive GC-MS and know what the peaks are in the FID.
Then use FID if you need to. Without a GC-MS FIRST you are guessing. After identifying all peaks, you are good to go.
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It’s not just terms, he’s making up whole concepts 
Yeah okay. Have a great day trying to troll bucko.
#metoo?
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Could you guide me about rxn temperature (when p-tsa put in to reactor).
Look up @iLLnyeTheShatterGuy his D8 sop in the search bar
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so if you wanna dry, lets say 98% heptane or heptane that has been air opened.
what would be an aprox percentage of weight you would distill to make sure there is no water on it. 10%?
Hello, my friend!!
could you explain this step a little more?
I don’t understand how you can remove the ptsa before open the system, I can imagine how to neutralize it of course, for example injecting a dried and degassed solution of high ph heptane…
This is very interesting to me because I tough that once you turn off the reactor the reaction stops and the game is finish, so then I just let the L2L staying for days or didn’t worry about the water content on heptane before heptane distillation to name some.
Maybe I have gotten so bad results because of this and I would like to do my best this time, maybe following those steps of absolute innerting/drying that you point here.
Use molsives to dry your Heptan
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Use Na2So4 to dry your organic layer.
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That was in case one intends to run the reaction in inert atmosphere.
Because the solubiliy of ptsa in heptane is limited, one can remove most of th catalyst by simple filtration, prior to neutralization.
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I’m sure those 4a beads are full of air that is going to null the prework. Thank you very much for this SOP anyway, I will give it a try.
You’re using the beads in your solvent to soak up water. You can sparge with nitrogen to remove air or O2.
Both are important practices to properly control your process.
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Remember on a LC or GC with FID the only way you have to identify peaks is retention time. Unless you have a standard for every compound to definitively identify the retention time, you’re stuck guessing.
MS detectors, however, given adequate resolution, will tell you the full story of what each peak is via M+.
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when I say null the prework I mean sparging. if you sparge and then dry… its better to dry and once dried sparge. dont you think?
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Yea I’d agree with that. It’s best to put beads in well before you conduct your process. I’d say drop in beads the day or night before and then sparge right before putting your solvent in the reactor.
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There’s a better SOP on the site that is much better and a lot of other people prefer ILLNYES method as well. I’d recommend trying that one first.
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I have done it!! thank you for your good intention in giving me this advice.
I only got around 65% following all the steps (rest unknowns) But maybe it has to do with the fact of letting some residual water on the solution prior to distilling heptane or maybe I didn’t get rid of all the ptsa because I just was vigorously shaking a decantation funnel for the L2L instead of stirring on a reactor so the ptsa acted again when the heptane distillation and/or on the SPD burning the THC… no idea… (but It was neutral according to paper sticks after the banking soda and salt L2L steps) (I just dropped some drops of the heptane + isomerized product over the sticks after all the L2L steps) (I don’t know if its the right way)
Also, once finished the reaction I let it to cold down just like it was over a night.
But I dont know if its becouse those inocent actions or becouse the SOP that is because I try to find another method here. Maybe inert/dry this time.