Does anyone have experience working with this salt. In particular, I am looking for suggestions of how to store it properly. I have a 25.0 g bag of it and have to believe there is a better way to store it.
I don't have experience with that particular BAr4 counterion, but keeping chemicals in a bag is just plain unsafe (ok, I know I've used sodium bicarb from a bag before, but that's pretty harmless). In my experience with similar BAr4 reagents, they are generally stable, and the major concern I would have is that the potassium would suck up ligands (water or other donors), thus messing up reactions when you use it.
I would definitely recommend repackaging your "Bag o' Counterion". I hope that's not the normal way companies ship the stuff, and I would also be sad/frightened if one of my students wrote "The compound was collected and stored in a plastic baggy" in their notebook/reports.
I would suggest putting it in a clean and dry brown glass container in a glovebox (unless you are using it outside the glovebox) after pulling vacuum on it overnight just to be safe.
The MSDS indicates that this salt is impact and static sensitive. That with the crazy shipping just made me wonder. I put it in a bottle and we are keeping it in the box.
Hmmm. Impact and static sensitive? I do know that LiC6F5 detonates on isolation, thankfully not form actually witnessing it detonating, just from discussions about synthesis (note to everyone out there, think of a different way of installing a C6F5 group if you want it!). I hope its not as dangerous as things like perchlorate salts (I'm never going to use them, heard too many horror stories).
Hi Chip,
I don't have experience with that particular BAr4 counterion, but keeping chemicals in a bag is just plain unsafe (ok, I know I've used sodium bicarb from a bag before, but that's pretty harmless). In my experience with similar BAr4 reagents, they are generally stable, and the major concern I would have is that the potassium would suck up ligands (water or other donors), thus messing up reactions when you use it.
I would definitely recommend repackaging your "Bag o' Counterion". I hope that's not the normal way companies ship the stuff, and I would also be sad/frightened if one of my students wrote "The compound was collected and stored in a plastic baggy" in their notebook/reports.
I would suggest putting it in a clean and dry brown glass container in a glovebox (unless you are using it outside the glovebox) after pulling vacuum on it overnight just to be safe.
Cheers,
Kyle
The MSDS indicates that this salt is impact and static sensitive. That with the crazy shipping just made me wonder. I put it in a bottle and we are keeping it in the box.
Hmmm. Impact and static sensitive? I do know that LiC6F5 detonates on isolation, thankfully not form actually witnessing it detonating, just from discussions about synthesis (note to everyone out there, think of a different way of installing a C6F5 group if you want it!). I hope its not as dangerous as things like perchlorate salts (I'm never going to use them, heard too many horror stories).