danaH

yea...i know color might be misleading,,,,but it is so frustrating when u get something different from what is reported thank you again !

the nickel looks brown and not yellow....you think it is ok? i will enter it to the glove-box after drying on high-vacuum,,, and i will take NMR,,,,hope it is ok!

i just saw the message after i started the reaction it goes really nice...i need to distill in one hour the thionyl chloride and put the nickel in a desiccator ... soon i will have about 10 grams of nickel chloride,,,thank you

ohhh great,,,!! i will save some money for my supervisor by not ordering the anhydrous this way and i will have more metal to try my experiments with! cool!!

ohh,,,cool,,,i just found this book now: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470132593.ch80/summary;jsessionid=3D3BD722D2E786D787F1E14197938DC0.d03t01 i dont have access to it,,, maybe we have it at the library,,, thank you again:)

Hey,,, someone here worked with NICKEL CHLORIDE HEXAHYDRATE? i have in the lab a big stock of it, but i wanna work with the dry nickel chloride! it can be dried good enough on high vacuum and heat to work with moisture sensitive ligands? or i should order dried one?

heheh,,,,no need to get crazy....the water is from my compound,,,,the acetone is from the CDCl3 bottle

it is very hygroscopic,,,,thank you very much! this forum is great

The acetone is from the chloroform-D bottle we have,,,, someone contaminated it ! i will try to dry it more on the high vacuum..the problem is that it becomes like a tar and doesnt solidify the solvents i used are :THF, acetone, DCM, water, Toluene thank u Dana

i will send you the NMR tomorrow when i will be at the Faculty, i dried it under vacuum and high temperature, it doesn't solidify yet... have you tried this reaction before? thank you for the help! Dana

Hey all,,, I have synthesised the compound 1,3-Diisopropylimidazolium chloride according to the patent procedure, and i have it by NMR, but it still contains contaminations, and i get it as a brown tar insted of brown solid,, what is the best method to wash this product? i washed few times with THF, but it still oily instead of solid! thank you,, Dana

Hey,,, I'm Dana, and i'm new here,,