Has anybody got a success with this synth? I don't sleep, don't eat, thinking and thinking again and again.
First question is about Pd/C 10% (50 % water wet). This as I know refers to the water suspension. It looks simple, but it is not: what I can not confirm is the weight. As it is said, for the experiment Pd/C was used as below: "0.34 g 10% palladium on-carbon (50% water wet)"
Does it mean 0.34g of 10% Pd/C + 0.34g of water turned to the suspension? Or it is 0.34g of ready suspension i.e. 0.17g of Pd/C + 0.17g of water?
Second difficult question about degassing. CO2 appears as the side product of this reaction. Some relatively small part of it will be dissolved in ethanol, as I estimate around 15%. Another 10% will fill the reactor. For the rest of CO2 degassing is required. Even if H2 applied under 2 atm, it will not solve the problem (or we need to apply H2 under 10 atm that's crazy story ahahah).
The question is HOW the ***** to determine the point to lock H2 and degas the reactor from CO2?