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00:00 Tu presentación:​ So, the importance of the glove box is it gives us a place where we can
work with really sensitive. Chemicals, in an inner atmosphere. A lot of chemicals react with
oxygen. That's out in normal atmosphere, where in the glove box we have nitrogen or argon,
which don't react with most other chemicals. There are other ways to do things but they're a lot
longer and harder. to the glove box, we have an inlet of an inert gas and the Box regulates the
pressure. So if like when I'm going into the glove box, it's pushing pressure on the glove box so
it removes some of the gas and then once you come out, it fills it back up when you want to
bring something into the glove box to go through the any chamber. Which is sort of like an
airlock, you think of like maybe on a Sci-Fi spaceship, where you put something in and normal
atmosphere, you pull vacuum on that so it removes any kind of atmosphere and then you refill
with your inner atmosphere and then you can bring that into your lipox. so, in the glove box, I
Took some sodium and cut it open because generally on the outside of the sodium at tarnishes.
So once you cut it it exposes nice clean sodium and then I just wanted to show that. Once you
put it into a liquid in the glove box that in there it won't do anything especially with a solvent like
pentane. If we had sodium outside the glove box. It would react with atmospheric water. And
ruin the chemistry or trying to do with with sodium. So that's why we keep sodium in the glove
box. So it doesn't react with with water. So I pre-cut some sodium. And have it in hexane, which
is similar liquid, that we put it in the glove box, just so, it has some layer over that, it doesn't
react with water in the atmosphere. So, I'm just going to take some out of here and dump in the
water. Which it should react. so, the sodium is reducing the water to make sodium hydroxide
and Hydrogen gas. And what? Normally happens in. A small container like this to hydrogen gas
builds up and can get ignited by the heat being put off by this reaction. There you go. The slank
one is important for chemists, like me, who do organometallic chemistry or inorganic chemistry,
because the metals which is the middle part of the periodic table are typically very sensitive to
oxygen. And so we need to be able to do these manipulations without letting oxygen into the
reaction. I use my shutting client every day and I think that most organometallic chemists will tell
you the same thing that we use our schlank lines every day. Like the glove box. This is the way
that we can do air free and water free manipulations. But this just gives us a little bit more
control over what we can do and how we can manipulate things. And sometimes there are
certain chemicals that we actually can't use in the glove box. And so we have to use the shrink
line. So the way that there's link line works is that it's two glass tubes and one is just filled with
what we call an inert gas. So it's a gas that doesn't react with the compounds that we're using.
And so, in our case in our lab, we use argon because it's heavier than the air around us. And so
when we have flasks, that are filled with argon typically, oxygen won't get inside and mix in with
the inert gas as easily. So we have one tube that's filled with argon and that will just keep Argon
gas will just keep flowing through. And then we have a second tube that is connected to a
vacuum pump. So if we think of like a vacuum cleaner, when we're doing our chores, it sucks
everything up. So this pump sucks. Everything out of that tube. And it's completely closed off,
and it's just completely constantly sucking everything out. So there's literally nothing inside of
the tube. When you reduce the pressure of a vessel that boils off any solvent. And so the
solvent Vapors will go through the tube. That's connected to the vacuum. And if you don't have
the Trap cool down, it'll just go directly into your pump. And so what we do is we cool down the
trap with liquid nitrogen and so any solvents that can be frozen will get Frozen inside the Trap.
And then the only thing that's going through to the pump is any auction that we're pumping off or
argon that we're pumping off. Like, when we pump Purge and that protects the pump For a
prolonged amount of time because the pumps are really expensive. So we don't want to
Damage them in any way. I mean it gets it gets complicated and it's a little difficult, but shlinkline
techniques Can kind of Be A Lost Art. And not a lot of people know how to do just link
techniques anymore, but I do think that it's an incredibly important. Art form because you can't
do. Do everything in a glove box. Even if you can afford one, you can't do everything in there.
And there are a lot of things that are easier to do on a slank line than in a glove box.