[P]

Hi, sorry if this is a silly question, but.. if you have a brominated hydrocarbon - how easy/what can you do to de-brominate this (back to the hydrocarbon)? Can this be done via some sort of ion exchange column?

Cheers,

P.

[macman104]

I had suspected that you could debrominate with some sort of H^- donator, so I googled "conversion of alkylbromide to alkane" and got this:

http://www.postech.ac.kr/lab/chem/mras/download/4.pdf

[P]

Thanks macman, I thought this would be the case - I'm not really sure if I can get what I'm looking for really.    - I want to be able pass a brominated hydrocarbon (12-15 chains long) over/through some kind of column or catalytic converter type thingy and return it to standard kerosene without too much fuss. I'm not sure if this is possible with the ease I am after.