LerryTate
Active Member
Swim had some Ketone laying around. Swim likes Al(Hg) reduction, but was wondering if people could use denatured alcohol instead of methanol, and would the yield go down? Swim did the whole process a few days ago, but ended up fu&#ing up during the HCL gasing stage( the gasser ended up sucking back the toluene into the sulfuric acid and hcl mixture
). Swim ended up evp the toluene after sep the the two layers and got a yellow oil; would this be the freebase amin it doesn't smell like rootbeer. Swim ran out of methanol during the reduction and had to add denatured alcohol to the reaction it seem to work, Swim is just wondering if ethanol or denatured alcohol could be used?