(Sorry for my English), but about this reaction:

 

Na + CHCl3 -> NaCl + ? + ?

 

Who knows what are the stable products that are formed in addition to NaCl?

Those who actually come from the tube! (...dichlorocarbene...if... not stable...!)

Thank you

Probably a mixture of soot and hydrocarbons.

BTW, the reaction can explode if you aren't careful so I'd not bother finding out.

Thanks John

In fact, the reaction IS explosive!

I found the solution elsewhere; will produce various substances depending on conditions: soot, H2, HCl, phosgene, hexachlorobenzene, and so on.

Certainly caution! Bye

I'd recommend more than just caution here. I'd recommend NOT DOING it. very strongly recommend.

I do remember a PhD student "accidentally" pressing sodium wire into CHCl3 to dry it when I was postdocing in Germany. When his supervisor found out, they got a robot type thing to drop the choroform bottles out of the lab window after having cleared three or four floors of laboratories. All extremely embarassing for the people involved.

Come to think of it, this is probably a fairly good way to synthesise a bunch of polychlorinated aromatics that you really don't want to have to deal with, even if you survive the explosion.

Please don't do this on the planet I have to live on.

Thanks

...please don't do this on the planet I have to live on...

 

John, (out of the Earth) I also have another similar reaction, even easier:

 

Na + CCl4 -> NaCl + C ?

 

Even here, KA-BOOM, little black smoke and some salt?

Simple but strange, however, reactions!

libavius, please dont try these reactions. it'd be a very dumb thing to do.

libavius, please dont try these reactions. it'd be a very dumb thing to do.

 

Thanks for advice Hermanntrude, I know that these reactions are very "sensitive."

But my discussion is for their strangeness, not to make them into practice!