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?

Just heating it won't do much. I think if you heat it in conjunction with some like thionyl chloride, you should get the anhydrous stuff, SO2 and a bunch of HCl. The product will be yellow.

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:)

Just heating it won't do much. I think if you heat it in conjunction with some like thionyl chloride, you should get the anhydrous stuff, SO2 and a bunch of HCl. The product will be yellow.

 

Having done this myself, I second that opinion.

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!!

As a side note, I use thionyl chloride a fair bit in my work and having seen what it does to disposable syringe needles, I would strongly recommend against using it with a syringe that is not disposable. It corrodes metal rather quickly. And don't make the mistake I once did and make sure you screw the lid on nice and tight. Cleaning a corrosives cabinet filled with thionyl chloride and HCl isn't exactly fun.

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

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 try not to base my assessment off of colour and appearance as it can lead you astray sometimes, but it sounds as though it would be okay. Best to check the NMR

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

thank you again !