woelen Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 This is a nice experiment, which shows formation of the special salt KICl4, which is a member of a whole class of very reactive and unstable salts (e.g. KI3, KIBr2, CsICl2, KICl4). http://woelen.scheikunde.net/science/chem/exps/KIO3+HCl/index.html You only need fairly common reagents, which are not that hard to obtain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budullewraagh Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 wouldn't ICl3 react with acetone to form chloroform? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woelen Posted January 14, 2006 Author Share Posted January 14, 2006 That might quite well be possible. I noticed a sweet smell from the brown liquid. I concluded that this is some chlorated hydrocarbon (the ones I have, have a sweet smell to me, CCl4, CHCl3, CH2Cl2, CHCl=CCl2), but I did not immediately conclude that it is CHCl3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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