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Magnesium tert-Butoxide

Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 2:54 am
by GC_Man83
Anyone have any experience developing a method development for the above mentioned material? its kicking my ass.

Thanks

GC_MAN

Re: Magnesium tert-Butoxide

Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 6:21 am
by DSP007
Hellow
You much find assholes and shitlowes. Who only exists to use it? :D

No experience, however. 8)
1) knead this stuff with water in an ultrasound, adding dropwise sulfuric acid.
2) After that, we understand with tert-butanol on the GC as it is accepted, and magnesium sulfate sad titrating Trilon as usual.

Re: Magnesium tert-Butoxide

Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 5:57 pm
by Don_Hilton
My first question is are you trying to assay the purity of prepared compund or the compund as a comonent in a mixture. And if it is a prepared compound, what impurities are conderned about? If it is a component in a mixture, what is matrix?

The answer DSP007 provided give the proportions of t-butanol and magnesium that can be derived from the compund - if that is what you want. When I saw the question, I was about to give an different kind of answer, untill I saw the answer that DSP007 gave and realized that your objective for the analysis is not clear to us. If you are looking for this as an impurity in a reaction mixture which may include t-butanol or magnesium, then you are looking for something that DSP007 did not anticipate in his answer and I would have missed with the direction I was about to take.

Re: Magnesium tert-Butoxide

Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 5:04 pm
by GC_Man83
It is a raw material which I am analyzing for purity

Re: Magnesium tert-Butoxide

Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 2:53 am
by Don_Hilton
You've got an interesting project. I'll toss a couple of ideas your way - if they help, then good. If they don't help - you can rely on the money back guarantee. :wink:

The next question I would have is what kind of specification is important? I assume lack of hydrolysis product would be part of it - and for that IR or near IR crosses my mind as a way to detect free isopropanol or MgO in the solid.

I assume that the use for this is such that the alkoxide will do some chemistry that magnesium hydroxide would not do. It may be possible to perform a displacemnt reaction with the alkoxide that would result in a product that could be easily measured. This would have to be a reaction that would not give a product when MgO and t-butanol are mixed it rather than the magnesium t-butoxide.