Toothpick93

The vapors that came off the calcium acetate when heated was most likely acetone

Copper Phosphate is insoluble in water but it is soluble in Phosphoric Acid, so you would have to neutralize the phosphoric acid and the Phosphate will precipitate.

Thanks for a great answer so this wouldn't be a viable route to obtain Oxalic Acid? I only really use Potassium Permanganate becuase thats the only real good oxidizer i can get, i can get a few nitrates but thats about it... and by get i mean make.... i get short on money to buy new chemicals so i tend to make them instead... what would your best way to make Oxalic acid?

if you have any sulfuric acid, you could just add that to copper oxide, the solution will look black at first but as the copper oxide reacts it froms Copper Sulfate, just boil it down to evaporate the water and if any acid is remaining, then just add more copper oxide till no more dissolves and just filter off the insoluble oxide from the solution

Ascorbic Acid -> Oxalic Acid So there was a thread about decomposition of ascorbic acid on ScienceMagness.org and a user said Quote: Originally posted by Sriraman The path way of decomposition of Ascorbic acid is Ascorbic acid to Dehydroascorbic acid to 2,5 Diketogulonic acid and then to oxalic acid and L-threonic acid. you can guess which gives yellow colour-possibly 2,5 diketogulonic acid due to its two ketonic functions Ascorbic Acid is readily valuable from health stores as Vitamin C but most of the time it isn't 100% Ascorbic Acid, my tablets that my family get has Sodium Ascorbate also in it so i could probably dissolve the whole tablet into water and acidify the water to turn Sodium Ascorbate into ascorbic acid and a sodium salt... and then cool the solution to crystallize out the acid. Now im a noob to how to do organic chemistry so i don't know how things take place but i think i figured out the equation to what is needed. C6H8O6 = C6H6O6 + H2 The first equation is a reduction, KMnO4 can be used to reduce it to Dehydroascorbic acid and Hydrogen Gas but how would u then separate the contaminates from the chemicals we want? C6H6O6 + H2O + C6H8O7 Now because the first reaction will contain water it will most likely go straight to the second reaction which hydrates it to 2,5 diketogulonic acid which would then maybe follow on to the next reaction as 2,5 diketogulonic acid reacts with the water to form Oxalic Acid and L-threonic acid 5 C7H8O7 + 7 H2O = 3 H2C2O4 + 6 C4H8O5 So would the reaction play out on its own? id really like to know more about this

Hi im toothpick93 or can also be known as Chemistry Alchemist... no i dont know any alchemy i just needed a name for my youtube channel and i was watching anime at the time so yeah dont know much about chemistry but i know a bit to how it works