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The Schlenk Line Survival Guide

Illustrated guides designed to help you master air and moisture-sensitive chemistry

  • The Schlenk Line
    • Working Principles
    • Stopcocks vs. Teflon Taps
    • Day-To-Day Tools
    • Equipment
    • Bubblers
    • Grease
    • Assembly
  • Guides
    • Cycling onto the Schlenk Line
    • Cannula Transfer
    • Cannula Filtration
    • Syringes and Sure Seals
    • Performing Sensitive Reactions without a Schlenk Line
    • Removing Solvent under Vacuum
    • Preparing NMR Samples on a Schlenk Line
    • Removing Solvent from NMR tubes
    • Freeze-Pump-Thaw
    • Static Vacuum Distillation
    • Dynamic Vacuum Distillation
    • Filtration through Celite
    • Addition of Solids
    • Refluxing Under an Inert Atmosphere
    • Gloveboxes
    • Drying Solvents
  • Synthetic Procedures
    • P(SiMe₃)₃
    • Potassium Mirror
    • Purifying LiAlH₄
    • Lithium Sand
  • Schlenk Line Safety
    • Gas Cylinders
  • Tips and Tricks
    • Troubleshooting
    • Crystallisation
    • Cleaning
    • Silanizing Glassware
  • Resources
    • Sustainable Schlenk Line Chemistry
    • Friends of the SLSG
  • About
    • Citing and Permissions
  • Services
  • Gallery
  • Contact

Resources

The Schlenk Line Survival Guide is now peer-reviewed and published as a tutorial in Organometallics! Please see below for open-access downloads and translations:

An Illustrated Guide to Schlenk Line TechniquesDownload
SPANISH – Una Guía Ilustrada de Técnicas de Línea de SchlenkDownload
FRENCH – Un guide illustré sur l’utilisation de la ligne de SchlenkDownload
GERMAN – Ein illustrierter Leitfaden für Schlenk-Line-TechnikenDownload

Videos, webinars and blog posts:

Synthesis Workshop Video on YouTube

OWPC – P(SiMe₃)₃ Tutorial

Chemistry World Article

VACUUBRAND Schlenk Line Webinar

VACUUBRAND Vacuum Requirements for Schlenk Line Applications

VACUU·PURE 10C Blog Post

The full library of step-by-step guides are also available as a PDF (Updated November 2020):

The Schlenk Line Survival GuideDOWNLOAD
SPANISH – The Schlenk Line Survival GuideDownload

The illustrations and graphics created for the Schlenk Line Survival Guide can be downloaded below. Please view the Citing and Permissions page to learn how to correctly use and distribute the resources provided.

Illustrations and ImagesDownload

Useful Webpages

The Safety Net

Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource

Organic Chemistry Data

Standard Operating Procedures for Cyclic Voltammetry

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Illustrated Guides

  • Guides
  • The Schlenk Line
    • Working Principles
    • Stopcocks vs. Teflon Taps
    • Day-To-Day Tools
    • Equipment
    • Bubblers
    • Grease
    • Assembly
  • Guides
    • Cycling onto the Schlenk Line
    • Cannula Transfer
    • Cannula Filtration
    • Syringes and Sure Seals
    • Performing Sensitive Reactions without a Schlenk Line
    • Removing Solvent under Vacuum
    • Preparing NMR Samples on a Schlenk Line
    • Removing Solvent from NMR tubes
    • Freeze-Pump-Thaw
    • Static Vacuum Distillation
    • Dynamic Vacuum Distillation
    • Filtration through Celite
    • Addition of Solids
    • Refluxing Under an Inert Atmosphere
    • Gloveboxes
    • Drying Solvents
  • Synthetic Procedures
    • P(SiMe₃)₃
    • Potassium Mirror
    • Purifying LiAlH₄
    • Lithium Sand
  • Schlenk Line Safety
    • Gas Cylinders
  • Tips and Tricks
    • Troubleshooting
    • Crystallisation
    • Cleaning
    • Silanizing Glassware
  • Resources
    • Sustainable Schlenk Line Chemistry
    • Friends of the SLSG
  • About
    • Citing and Permissions
  • Services
  • Gallery
  • Contact
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