Bleach and alcohol

[Ally2017]

Hi. Need some advice as I'm worried about my mistake I made. I used bleach spray (1.5%) on my kitchen floor and wiped it up with some wipes containing ispropyl alcohol (5%). Online states a dangerous release of chemical gases would occur! Would this of happened in this case? Would they keep reacting as I went to bed after? Thanks in advance!

[hypervalent_iodine]

The most significant product would have been chloroform, but it seems unlikely you would have made much. You would have noticed the smell, in any case. The reaction would have been pretty quick also, and if your floor is dry I think you're probably safe.

[Ally2017]

Thank you for your response. Would any other toxic gases have been created or only choloform? Would it usually be a higher concentration of these chemicals to make a reaction happen? Sorry for questions just feel very worried especially as I have 2 young children too!

[Country Boy]

Combining bleach and ​ammonia ​will release chlorine gas which is a dangerous poison. Are you sure that wasn't what you read?

[hypervalent_iodine]

Combining bleach and ​ammonia ​will release chlorine gas which is a dangerous poison. Are you sure that wasn't what you read?

As will bleach and isopropanol.

[BabcockHall]

Bleach is sometimes used to decontaminate prior to performing PCR amplification of DNA. Some protocols used 70% ethanol afterwards, but this releases chlorine gas:

 

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00450618.2015.1004195?src=recsys&journalCode=tajf20

[John Cuthber]

Combining bleach and ​ammonia ​will release chlorine gas which is a dangerous poison. Are you sure that wasn't what you read?

No it won't.

It will produce chloramines, but not Cl2

As will bleach and isopropanol.

Perhaps you could expand on that.

Bleach is sometimes used to decontaminate prior to performing PCR amplification of DNA. Some protocols used 70% ethanol afterwards, but this releases chlorine gas:

 

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00450618.2015.1004195?src=recsys&journalCode=tajf20

Ditto

[hypervalent_iodine]

No it won't.

It will produce chloramines, but not Cl2

Perhaps you could expand on that.

Ditto

Exapand on what? Bleach and isopropanol does make chloroform. Or do you mean my "as will" comment? I wasn't really commenting on the veracity of their statement so much as the fact that their assumption about what the OP actually meant was misplaced. I am aware that the combination they mention makes chloramines.

[BabcockHall]

From the abstract by Ballantyne and coworkers, "However, safety testing revealed that the combination of hypochlorite and ethanol produced levels of gaseous chlorine at or above the recommended exposure limits. Subsequently, a cleaning protocol of 1% hypochlorite followed by distilled water was tested for efficacy, and subsequently introduced throughout the laboratory."

 

This is an interesting question. Oxidation of an alcohol by hypochlorite should produce chloride ion, as opposed to chlorine gas.

http://organic.chem.tamu.edu/Prelab.PowerPoints/Printed%20Slides%20-%20237/Oxidation%20of%20a%20Secondary%20Alcohol-12c.pdf