Re: TLC of Thiols

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From: Alan Uncle Al Schwartz
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:00

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tony2@nyquist.bellcore.com (Antoni S. Gozdz 21621) wrote:
>In article <4fbgib$fo@reader2.ix.netcom.com> Alan \"Uncle Al\" Schwartz <uncleal0@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>>
>>There are things worse than thiols.  Ever smell p-chlorophenylisocyanide? 
>> It overpowers ethyl mercaptan.
>
>Smelling an isocyanide: isn't this a once-in-a-lifetime experience?

Except for a very few of them (see Ugi's slim volume), the effect is 
primarily aesthetic.  You haven't lived until you make 50 grams of white 
needles (keep 'em cold or they don't stay white) and get complaints from 
two miles downwind.  Bicycling home is recommended - and keep moving.

t-butylisocyanide is a rather volatile liquid (getting the CH2Cl2 out is 
a pisser of a distillation) and more than passingly toxic.  It's ratehr 
more peppery than the other stuff.  Whew!

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