All of the syntheses seem to use argon. Do you know if you can use nitrogen as the inert gas in making potassium graphite?
Thanks,
Martin
Kyle Grice / DePaul University
Hi Martin,
In my postdoc lab, students made it under vacuum using a sealabe vessel if I remember correctly. Maybe under N2 or argon. Be sure to use a glass-coated stirbar.
Also, many many small fires have been caused by quenching the vessel you make the KC8 in. Its spontanously flammable in air. Be very careful.
I have purposefully avoided it in my current research even though it would be great to get crystal structures of reduced species. I just don't want to risk it.
I will be very careful if I do try to make and use it. Small scale reactions, and I probalby will quench the material in the glovebox with 50:50 iPrOH:t-butanol, then purge the box out to remove the alcohol vapors.
Hi Martin,
In my postdoc lab, students made it under vacuum using a sealabe vessel if I remember correctly. Maybe under N2 or argon. Be sure to use a glass-coated stirbar.
Also, many many small fires have been caused by quenching the vessel you make the KC8 in. Its spontanously flammable in air. Be very careful.
I have purposefully avoided it in my current research even though it would be great to get crystal structures of reduced species. I just don't want to risk it.
Kyle
Hi Kyle,
Thanks for the insight.
I will be very careful if I do try to make and use it. Small scale reactions, and I probalby will quench the material in the glovebox with 50:50 iPrOH:t-butanol, then purge the box out to remove the alcohol vapors.
Thanks again,
Martin