sorry guys. i don't know where else to post this and get knowledgeable ppl to read it, but here it goes. btw, moderators, feel free to move it to the correct forum for me, thanks! i know a bunch of people are using toluene and xylene as a octane booster, but i am interested in 1 particular brand.

i want to know if the "klean strip" brand of toluene and also their xylene is for real 100% pure toluene or xylene respectively (methylbenzene and o,m,p-dimethylbenzene). so if anyone wanna attempt this and have access to a NMR machine, can you please give it a run? thanks

here's my other question: if xylene works as a octane booster, which isomeric structure would it be? does it matter or will the 2 methyl groups just under go rearrangement anyways so it will be all of the 3 (ortho, meta, and para) at any give time in space? i am only asking because xylene is easier to find than toluene from experience. i also heard that xylene can eat fuel rubber hose lines too, but at a very slow rate where as toluene doesnt.

 

If you know a Chemistry grad student who does research at a lab with a NMR, then they could run it for you.

I can't even remember the last time I looked at a NMR graph much less what it could tell me.

 

hmm, i can interpret the graph, but i just dont have the machine lol. thanks for the reply tho.