• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    …I think we did it on a hotplate.

    Maybe we were using toluene as a solvent or something. It’s been quite a while.

    • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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      5 months ago

      You said that you only did the first nitration, right? You were probably using slightly less concentrated ingredients then. Doing it on a hotplate with oleum and fuming nitric (required for all three nitrations) is madness.