I want to prepare Hydrogen Chloride saturated Methanol by bubbling dry HCl gas into 1 L Methanol 0-4°C. I'm adding concentrated HCl to Calcium Chloride drop-wise via an addition funnel (as noted here
http://curlyarrow.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-make-dry-hcl-gas.html and here
http://chemtips.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/snap-crackle-pop-anhydrous-hcl-generation/).
I'd like to know the following:
- How much CaCl2 and HCl should be required to saturate 1 L methanol with HCl gas?
- How long should it take to reach saturation?
- What is the saturation concentration of HCl gas in Methanol?
- I imagine the concentration can be verified via titration, but what is the best method for doing so?
- I am using a glass Pasture pipette to bubble in the HCl gas, but it seems a diffuser of some sort would work better to get more of the gas into solution. Are there any recommendations or suggestions for this purpose? Or should I just draw out the pipette to a finer tip to get smaller bubbles?