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 fuck to determine the point to lock H2 and degas the reactor from CO2?