This is what the wiki article source says: _"To demonstrate the property of triboluminescence, the crystals should be well-formed, and it is vital that they be completely free of solvent. The triboluminescence is best demonstrated by placing several crystals of the compound between two watch glasses and gently grinding. The light emitted is readily observed in a darkened room."_ So, maybe recrystallization for bigger crystals, dry with little heat and crush in dark.
@@frostchem I can confirm that the crystals are triboluminescent, but the luminescence is very weak, you have to adapt the eye in a dark room. The light might not be sufficiently strong to be seen on a video recorded with a regular camera. Similar to when you crash sugar crystals. The light was not particularly blue, just bright (white) if I remember correctly.
My bad. I was a bit lazy to do the math for finding the percentage yield but I’ll put in the percentage yield now for the next syntheses I’m going to do.
@@frostchem It is very important information, with tells you did reaction went well or not. Do not be lazy in case of org chem, lazyness can be deadly :P
@@ejkozan I got similar yields to the literature for the phthalimide and anthranilic acid but I got a lower yield for the N-acetylanyhranilic acid which got a 90% yield
