[Cutch145]

Hello everybody.  I'm new to the forum world but if this site is used by PhD students, Wow, truly a great resource.

Well here it is,  I'm a organic PhD student in California and I'm trying to pull this one reaction off.  The reaction requires anhydrous Cu(OAc)2.  I have over a pound of the monohydrate.  How may I go about drying the reagent. 

I'm familiar with the drying gun/Phosphorus pentaoxide method but we don't have the required apparatus.  I was thinking of putting under high vac and keeping it in a ~100 C oil bath. 

What do the inorganic chemists think?  Thanks!

[BluRay]

Hello everybody.  I'm new to the forum world but if this site is used by PhD students, Wow, truly a great resource.

Well here it is,  I'm a organic PhD student in California and I'm trying to pull this one reaction off.  The reaction requires anhydrous Cu(OAc)2.  I have over a pound of the monohydrate.  How may I go about drying the reagent. 

I'm familiar with the drying gun/Phosphorus pentaoxide method but we don't have the required apparatus.  I was thinking of putting under high vac and keeping it in a ~100 C oil bath. 

What do the inorganic chemists think?  Thanks!

Wikipedia agrees with your idea, but you probably already know it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper(II)_acetate.
Another possible method is to use concentrated H₂SO₄ and a drying jar.
An imaginative idea: to use acetic anydride.

[Fleaker]

Actually, Ac2O is par for the course when it comes to drying many inorganic acetates.

You could also heat it with toluene in a reduced pressure distillation, the azeotrope with water will dry the material quite nicely.

H2SO4 works, but P2O5 rocks!