Chemistry question

[quakerboy]

Ok. I am feeling challenged, and my last chemistry class was some time ago.

What, if anything, would happen if one left 91% isopropyl alcohol with copious amounts of aluminium foil in a sealed vessel overnight?

[quakerboy]

1. no one?

[pokerfan]

2. aluminium isopropoxide?

A widely accepted method for preparing aluminium isopropoxide was published in 1936 by Young, Hartung, and Crossley.<6> Their procedure entails heating a mixture of 100 g of aluminium, 1200 mL of isopropyl alcohol, and 5 g of mercuric chloride at reflux. The process occurs via the formation of an amalgam of the aluminium. A catalytic amount of iodine is sometimes added to initiate the reaction, which can be quite vigorous. Young et al. achieved an 85–90% yield, after purification by distillation at 140–150 °C (5 mm Hg).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_isopropoxide#Preparation

[quakerboy]

6. Thank you for that

I don't know why it didn't pop up in my google search.

Anyhow, I don't think we hit 150 C sitting on my kitchen countertop. So the next question is can it react at a lower temp over time?

[pokerfan]

7. don't know

it could be forming some other reaction.

Household cleaning chemicals are dangerous.

[Kali]

3. You doing it?

I can if you want.

[quakerboy]

5. My wife is cleaning some

glass artwork in offbrand ziplock with rubbing alcohol, and has tinfoil in there for some reason, and after it had sat for about a day, I noticed that when I go in that room(the kitchen) I get a dry throat and a metalic taste. Putting that together with her massive headache developed in the same time period, and the fact that I, with no nausea or any precursor upset, started chucking my breakfast yesterday, and I start to wonder if the two situations could be connected.

[Orsino]

4. Worst. Party. Ever.

I would hope at least that you have a karaoke machine.