Synthesis of Hydrazine

[98JMA]

RIP Myfanwy:(

[ytrewq6789]

All Rise!!!

[wlmason73]

I hate this damn song. I don't care about the content of the video. As soon as I hear this track it's time to pause, thumbs down, express my hatred of the track, and move on.

[NOBOX7]

THIS REACTION ALSO CREATS PHOSGENE IM SPELLING THAT RONG LOOK IT UP, IT WILL KILL YOU JUST LIKE IT KILLED THE MAKER OF THIS VIDEO

[NOBOX7]

DANGER,,,,, DO NOT DO THIS,,,,,,, CHLORINE GAS MIXED WITH A BYPRODUCT IN THIS REACTION " I WONT NAME" CREATES PHOSGENE GAS A DEADLY NERVE AGENT AND THATS WHAT KILLED THIS POOR KID, NOTICE ITS HIS LAST VIDEO

[antiswattt2]

@NOBOX7 ah man this is just fucking sad... :/ if i had the opportunity to get there, i would be there but i guess he only became around 15??

[anjin33]

thumbs up for the mute button!

[lexichronicle2]

"well do not mention siancemadnes on enny site it is fore us only."

I am one of the most active contributors to science madness, and have helped with paying to keep the site up.

Some of the things discussed are deceptively dangerous, and myfanwy demonstrated that the audience varies widely and there needs to be at least some element of care involved in the advice given on the particularly harmful stuff.

But I seriously dislike the blatant high explosive questions from teens.

[ConorC96]

Are you ok dude?! D:

[lexichronicle2]

This guy was in his teens & interested in high explosives. He decided to have a go at making phosgene. I have used toxic gases for chemistry before, quite a lot, & would avoid phosgene myself. He stopped posting on SM & youtube shortly after & reports turned up from people who lived around him that he was dead. If chlorine bothers you, things like phosgene should not be on the agenda; it's much worse & acts differently. He didn't appreciate how bad things can get, as you can see by his reply.

[SeanCrowley1]

I'm a big NASA geek and understand the workings of basic rocketry, but why would someone want to try and make hydrazine anyway?

[loonylecky]

@SeanCrowley1 Hydrazine is a very important chemical for many types of synthesis.Due to its nature its very difficult to obtain and so home manufacture is the only way for some folks.

What you have here is someone whos curiosity & intelligence outweighs their maturity,experience and the education they're so blatantly craving.Very sad.Waste of a very good mind....and there seems to be a great shortage of that.

[vmelkon]

@SeanCrowley1 You produce the hydrazine sulfate and store it in a bottle and that's it. Chemistry is about procedure, the yield, why does the reaction happen. Also, recently someone named NurdRage posted a video for making Luminol which utilizes the hydrazine sulfate.

[UTubeisSHIT523441]

my ears heart.

[14ku2sh0]

whaaat this kids realy dead seriously??? 

[spotlightman1234]

@14ku2sh0 yes died from phosgene... :(

[ralbiruni]

For rockets propellant I prefert dimethyl N hydrazin

H2N-N[CH3]2

in order to make this, you have the choice between few ways:

reduce of dimethyl nitrosamin or amination of chloro dimethylamin...

[sirbismuth]

Rest in peace, fellow chemist.

[yellowmetalcyborg]

Why, why, why, why, why, why, did you choose this music?!!! Out of all the music in the world, why this one?!!!!

[lexichronicle2]

IMPORTANT NOTE:

It's suspected this user accidentally killed himself whilst making dangerous materials at home. He was also a member on Science Madness and was warned, more than once, that he was not putting enough thought into the methods.

[vmelkon]

@lexichronicle2 Look at his account. Last activity was today (22 july, 2011). He isn't dead.

[lexichronicle2]

@vmelkon Or one of his family members has just come onto youtube and his account settings are still saved in the cache.

Most people would quite like to demonstrate that they haven't annihilated themselves by replying to my 'top comment' up there. So hopefully he does.

[surplusdriller]

@lexichronicle2 well do not mention siancemadnes on enny site it is fore us only.

[PICLex]

@lexichronicle2

Oh get a life! He's free to make his own mistakes.

[lexichronicle2]

@PICLex He is, but I think those who are using his videos as a guide to reproduce these things might be interested to know he also killed himself in the process.

[PICLex]

@lexichronicle2

lol, fair enough

[NOBOX7]

@lexichronicle2 wow i think your write dood does seem to be infact dead, not cool

[AlChemicalLife]

i miss you : ( i wish you wouldnt have made the toxic substaince carbonyl dichloride

[ShindenZero]

MUTED. 

[SeptaValent]

be careful, hydrazine is a suspected carcinogen!

[MrChemistryTime]

Hmm, maybe I'll do a hydrazine video sometime.

[mewrox99]

Rip ;(

it's so sad watching his videos and knowing what happened to him

[mewrox99]

@kuro96inlaila

Yeah sadly he did. He died from pulmonary odema. In the days before his death he posted on sciencemadness about how he wanted to make phosgene (carbonyl dichloride) a deadly insidious poison used as an agent in chemical warfare

He was really intelligent for a 15 year old, but he never really used enough protection given the danger of the chemicals dabbling in

[TakronRust]

LBP?

[jonvagnier]

my favorite part was the part where you breathed it in

[Thetruthishere11]

you didn't light it up.

let down.

[R5H4D0W]

Why not just use Ammonia and Sodium Hypochlorite?

NH3 + NaOCl --> NaOH + NH2Cl

NH3 + NH2Cl + NaOH -->N2H4 + NaCl + H2O

2NH2Cl + N2H4 --> 2 NH4Cl + N2

[tobse1005]

Du bist verrückt. Was willst damit anstellen? Ich hab mit dem Zeug tagtäglich zu tun und weiß über die Folgen sehr genau bescheid.

[Nguli34689]

When I went to the annual mushroom symposium at the Oakland Museum in California, I learned that some species of fungi (such as the "false morels") contain Gyromitrin esp. Gyromitria esculenta. Gyromitrin yields N-methylhydrazine when it undergoes metabolic hydrolysis in a human body. This is why certain Italian families clean, slice, and parboil this fungi before consuming it. N-methylhydrazine is a hepatoxic carcinogen that is used as a rocket fuel and in production of Class-A high explosives.

[discaras]

sorry but wouldn't be easier to react ammonia with hydrogen peroxide?:S

[donnelrj01]

@discaras

No, because this is organic chemistry. Not scrabble.

[antiswattt2]

1 breath of hydrazine and youre dead ^^

[Myfanwy94]

@antiswattt2

no not really, but i was screwed.

i didnt know that hydrazine fumes are that damn toxic and corrosive to your lungs.

i coughed the whole weekend, it was a very dry and painful coughing..

[lithiumw]

@Myfanwy94

Pay attention with that stuff, it's carcinogen.

What yield did you get ? I remember I made some hydrazine for my first organic synthesis (luminol from phthalic anhydride, a long time ago ^^). But the yield for hydrazine was not really good.

[NeutralNegotiator]

@Myfanwy94 I have one question if you can remember thought. Did it really smell like ammonia? And if yes how intence?

[mgv176]

@antiswattt2 he is dead:( from hydrazine fumes

[mewrox99]

@mgv176

Nah it wasn't hydrazine. It was apparently phosgene (Cl2C=O)

[Nitricthunder]

@mgv176 the guy who made this vid is dead? , and BTW antiswatt is in prison.

[NOBOX7]

@antiswattt2 you was write , one breath and your dead, in this case it took several months to kill this gie, poor basterd even describes painfull coughing

[lexichronicle2]

@NOBOX7 "in this case it took several months to kill this gie"

It actually happened faster than that. He had been doing these experiments, describing all the coughing. He then tried making phosgene, which is far more dangerous than things like HCl(g), ammonia or chlorine as it doesn't create any intense pain or smell; but it does alter the protein lining of the lungs. That was the end of his experiments and, unfortunately, his life. I suspect he was dead within 24h of inhaling it.

[TNITRATO]

Just a thing, with chlorourea you can also make semicarbazide that is useful to triazolone and finally to nitrotriazolone (NTO), but the difference is that you need a excess of urea rather than hypochlorite (see US5241117, that I have followed with good results).

I dont used chlorine/NaOH though. I used a method did by garage chemist on hydrazine thread (SMDB), making bleach from Na2CO3 and Ca(OCl2) and filtrating resulting CaCO3.

[TNITRATO]

Ah, I almost forgot to say.. Thank you very much by this video. The first showing the urea method, I guess.

[Myfanwy94]

thanks.

yes now i test trichloroisocyanuric acid is chlorinating agent instead of hypochlorites, because its often much cheaper and easier to find.

have to try NTO in some time.

[JaycubL]

Are you going to make astrolite?

[Myfanwy94]

maybe i try it sometimes.

[donnelrj01]

Wont this simply form dichlorourea?

[Myfanwy94]

work with both

[xxMadBomberxx]

Good luck with the astrolite.

Where did you find out how to make hydrazine?

[Myfanwy94]

sciencemadness and versuchschemie

[xxMadBomberxx]

Thanks

[ytmachx]

This a synth I've been wanting to do also. Great work!

[Peterditaa]

Danke an FischarChemie....

[Myfanwy94]

allerdings.