Making diethylsuccinoylsuccinate - the Claisen condensation

[@WizardZph]

This reaction in general is AWESOME dude thank you so much for making this video

[@midwestchem368]

Great video man i really liked this one! I have really enjoyed the breakdown of the reaction and why followed by the synthesis. You make is flow together very well. 3:30 sodium is wild. I squeezed about a gram and a half in my gloved hand and left it there for a minute or so. It just progressively got warmer until it felt like a hand warmer. It was just cool to see and feel how exothermic that reaction with the air really is!

[@ChemDungeon]

@@midwestchem368 thank you brother :) sodium really is wild. There are a lot of water sensitive compounds, but something as oxygen sensitive as sodium is, as well as being so water sensitive makes it on a whole other level

[@rezaalijanianzadeh4202]

Very very nice

[@dimaminiailo3723]

Clear and succinct, as usually. The mp's deviation may be due to them being uncorrected since all of them seem to be not random but slightly shifted. Can't wait for the next video!

[@ChemDungeon]

@@dimaminiailo3723 thank you :) it probably is the mps being uncorrected, it’s a little unusual for me though

[@dimaminiailo3723]

@ChemDungeon Their correction was redundant in most cases. In distillation, one usually collects the fraction with a constant bp, and the same goes to mp's: they need not be exact but remain constant after successive purification

[@Cairlos001]

Great video. My colleague has been working on quinacridone based pigment lately, namely a quinacridonequinone. Looking forward to the upcoming video

[@ChemDungeon]

@@Cairlos001 that’s interesting, it’s definitely the most prevalent class of modern pigments. Thank you :)

[@dimaminiailo3723]

​@@ChemDungeon has the azo dye fashion faded away?

[@ChemDungeon]

@@dimaminiailo3723 definitely not, azo dyes make up the majority of those used, at least in food and textiles. I think they’re being phased out to some extent due to toxicity concerns, but there just aren’t many similarly-performing, less toxic replacements

[@chickenzzila]

hello there johnathen