Talk:Sodium hypochlorite
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[edit] Misprint?
Near the end of the nineteenth century, E. S. Smith patented a method of hypochlorite production involving hydrolysis of brine to produce caustic soda and chlorine gas, which then mixed to form hypochlorite.[citation needed] Both electric power and brine solution were in cheap supply at this time, and various enterprising marketers took advantage of this situation to satisfy the market's demand for hypochlorite.
Maybe electrolysis? It looks like a misprint. --159.148.226.100 (talk) 20:08, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
As no one has commented this I will now edit, preserving "hydrolysis" as comment. "citation needed" tag was already present. --159.148.226.100 (talk) 07:25, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Reaction with Alcohols
In undergrad labs we used NaOCl and reacted it with glacial acetic acid to form HOCl which maintains an equilibrium between HOCl and H2OCl+ (The H2O will not form a leaving group because the chloride ion does not have the electrons required to leave) which can oxidize alcohols to carbonyls without the use of a catalyst. I don't have a source for this other than a powerpoint presentation I can still access from my universities lab website though. Figure this would be important to add since it is not even mentioned on the hypochlorous acid page, but this page mentions the use of NaOCl to oxidize alcohols to carbonyls. I've only used it to form ketones but I imagine it works with aldehydes Kasooi (talk) 21:51, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
