Posted by Animal on March 19, 1997 at 21:23:26:
Have you ever made DNP that way yourself? You don't need a solvent for the
merc nit and the benzene? And if you don't, shouldn't the merc nitrate be
added dropwise to a stirred benzene. Oxymercuration should be done at room
temp. and should be allowed to complete before adding the nitric acid?
I think I can do the birch rx using liquid ammonia from a cylinder and I'm going
to look up those patents. I don't forsee any difficult distillation or equipment
for using this technique. The hardest part will be getting the liquid ammonia
cylinder as everything else is rather common if expensive.
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