March Q&A question submission

I am a teacher at an international school abroad. We have a decent set of chemicals for inorganic chemistry, but I was wondering what some common chemicals or labs we could do that involves organic chemistry? While I can easily do experiments outside, we don't have access to a fume hood, so we couldn't do anything that would have super toxic fumes. I was thinking about something like making nylon.

What happened to your video on making potassium metal? I found it on another channel but I was wondering why it's not on yours anymore

I plan on making copper oxychloride. From what I read, the way I want to achieve this is to by mixing a cupric chloride(in HCl) solution with solution of some sort of base. Ive found where people have used sodium hydroxide as the base. My question is, could I achieve the same results if I neutralized my cupric chloride with copper hydroxide instead. Reasons being ive made copper hydroxide pretty easily by electrolysis and I figured there would be less overall contamanation in the final product. Love your channel. Thanks for any input.

Do you think you will be able to make a video on isotope separation, specifically deuterium water from normal water. There is already a youtube channel that covered this(Cody's Lab) but I was wondering if there was a quicker or easier way to do it.

What are the mechanism, required concentration and time of chloroxylenol as a disinfectant? Wiki only vaguely says "disruption of cell membrane potentials". There is not much information about the time of contact on the internet too.

Keith

I'd like to know more about chlorinating primary alcohols. It is a problematic area, because primary alcohols don't give a shit about strong acids (like HCl) and an average nurd won't get his hand on any chemicals which work. I believe Thionyl chloride is too dangerous to sell to individuals, but never asked about it. So, is there a safe way to chlorinate primary alcohols?

Do you have any interest in or in-depth knowledge of the realm of silicones/siloxanes? I've been fascinated by them since I began using silicone both in moldmaking and in prosthetic makeup effects. I love all the various additives and alternative formulations that produce such a vast array of phyiscal properties. But to my dismay, I've had the hardest time learning about the early chemical discoveries that first introduced them to the modern world. I understand that it pretty much all starts and ends with Dow-Corning, and I've gone as far as tracking down the earliest published papers both on silicone oil and RTV silicone polymers, but, being an outsider with little more than a 15 year-old course in honor's chemistry, I've found the information rather tricky to digest.

Paul Grodt