for the most part you don't have to distill the water out. always have molecular sieves in them and it will cut down on the water in the solvents, and keep them sealed when not in use. it's what i do for our NMR solvents. if it's really hydroscopic make sure it's always under nitrogen and purge it from time to time in nitrogen. will help a lot
2006-07-13 07:04:12
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answered by shiara_blade 6
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What? Like dry as in remove water?
Lots, and lots, and lots of distilling. It's insane how much freaking distilling you'll be doing. And it's alot of glassware you can get from catalogs, and alot of time, I don't know where to find that.
Unless you mean, how will I remove deuterated solvents from a product, in which case, the same way you remove any solvents from products. Seperate layers, brine wash, dry, rotovap, recryst/distill. Brine wash is saturated NaCl in water, drying is usually over MgSO4(available in any organic lab/catalog), rotovaps are also in almost all organic labs, and then the recryst equipment is usually what you would do your reaction with, and the distillation we already discussed.
Good luck!
2006-07-13 01:52:02
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answered by TheHza 4
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you're better off buying anhydrous solvents and opening them in a glove box... otherwise you should use an inorganic dessicant like TheHza said.
2006-07-13 05:14:29
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answered by twinsfan 2
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