From: Thomas Szabo <info**At_Symbol_Here**YOUKAYA.COM>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Best Practices Question
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:28:07 -0700
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
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In my experience the most common mistakes are not flushing the glass setup properly with an inert gas, BOTH before hydrogen is introduced AND after the hydrogenation is complete.


Done properly, atmospheric pressure catalytic hydrogenation is one hell of a safe and simple reaction. And having nice glassware allowing monitoring of uptake volumetrically definitely helps.

Thomas Szabo, PhD

On Aug 11, 2021, at 2:48 PM, Jack Brown <orgchem1954**At_Symbol_Here**gmail.com> wrote:

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Hello James;
There are several groups that might be interesting for you to talk to.  However, are you interested in only lab scale hydrogenations or larger scales?  And as far as methanol filtrations or is this focused on filtration after the hydrogenation is completed?
Thanks
Jack D. Brow

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 2:45 PM James Kaufman <jim**At_Symbol_Here**labsafety.org> wrote:
A colleague asked me to gather your thoughts about the following inquiry.

Do you know, or do you know of someone/group I could talk to concerning industry best practices about hydrogenation/open access hydrogenation/methanol/filtration, etc.? We would like to see if there are some practices out there that we haven't considered.

Regards ... Jim

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