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Reactivity Documentation

Acids, Strong Oxidizing

mixed with

Alcohols and Polyols

Summary

Details

Acids, Strong Oxidizing is a reactive group.
Alcohols and Polyols is a reactive group.

Reactivity Predictions (for each pair of reactive groups)

Acids, Strong Oxidizing mixed with
Alcohols and Polyols

Hazard Predictions

Reaction of 2-propanol with nitric acid caused rapid gas evolution (possibly NOx gases, citation needed) (Urben, P.G. 1991. Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, 4th Edition. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 1150).

2-butanol is readily dehydrated to flammable isobutene gas by H2SO4 (Gates, B.C., J.S. Wisnoukas, H.W. Heath., and J. Catal. 1972. 2(24):320-327.).

Alcohols and glycols form explosive alkyl perchlorates with perchloric acid (Bailar, J. C., Emeleus, H. J., Nyholm, R. S., Trotman-Dickenson, A. F., Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford, Pergamon, 1973, Volume 2, pp. 1451).

Alcohols, including methanol, cyclohexanol, furfuryl alcohol, and ethylene glycol may explode, ignite, or form explosive compounds with high-concentration nitric acid (Urben, P.G. 1995. Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, 5th Edition. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 1466. Many articles referenced.).

Nitric acid reacts explosively with ethanol; and the combination of nitric acid and furfuryl alcohol reacts sufficiently exothermically and violently for use as a rocket propellant (Clarke, S.I., W.J. Mazzafro. 2005. Nitric Acid. In Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Online)).

Many organic solvents, including some alcohols, explode on contact with permanganic acid (Fire and Explosion Risks, von Schwartz, E., London, Griffin, 1918, p. 327.).

Oxidizing acids may react with alcohols to liberate toxic and flammable aldehyde and halide dioxide gases (Predicted).

Potential Gas Byproducts