apparatus for sealing air-sensitive material into an ampoule

Submitted by Cameron Gren / University of North Alabama on Thu, 05/16/2019 - 17:43

I work with air-sensitive organometallic compounds When I was in graduate school, we used to send off samples for x-ray crystallography in ampules that we would seal using a little apparatus. It was essntially a screw cap with a hole and an o-ring that you would put around the ampoule. That would then screw onto (I think) a threaded glass adapter with a ground-glass joint on the other end that you would put a gas inlet onto. All of this could be done in the glove box, then brought out and put on the Schlenk line. I seem to remember pulling a slight vacuum before sealing it.

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