Resumen de Simple and Inexpensive Method for the Detection of Carbon Monoxide Released from Thermal Cheletropic Decarbonylation Reactions

Iain A. Smellie, Cameron L. Carpenter Warren, Brian A. Chalmers, David B. Cordes, Rodrigo P. F. De A. Gouy, Neil S. Keddie, Tomas Lebl, Iain L. J. Patterson, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

• This work presents a simple protocol that demonstrates the use of an inexpensive household carbon monoxide detector as a useful tool to detect the release of carbon monoxide gas from thermal cheletropic decarbonylation reactions. The carbon monoxide detection method described has been employed in a short series of reactions used in a university teaching laboratory setting, and full procedures for these are outlined. In each case, the procedure to isolate and identify the decarbonylation products has also been provided.