we would love to see that al lot of these papers tend to leave out details assumming the reader is "skilled in the art"
it would be an intersting read
try systran software downloaded off limewire or such.
if it's pdf it's going to be a pain to translate i can tell you this much
Well, this is not an official paper, just a how-to for people who wanna make kompot without the need to know chemistry. I hope you can guess what chemical reactions happen in each step; I'm just a student (I learn more than talk) and would not dare to say anything about the chemistry of this process without any experience.
This is the translation, word for word, I hope without any bigger mistakes:
The core process is the acetylation of morphine alkaloids to heroin using acetic anhydride.
Things you will need:
-poppy straw,
-ion-exchange resin (brown-gold coloured grains, used as a fill in water softeners; you can obtain it at boiler house or in aquaristic shops. There are different kinds of this resin, you will need the acidic one),
-vinegar 10%,
-kitchen salt,
-25% ammonia water,
-acetone (ether is better but harder to get),
-acetic anhyhdride (hard to get; people used to steal it from hospital's laundry),
-a few saucepans, bowl/basin, electric cooker or iron, dropper.
First of all, put 2-3 kg of ion-exchange resin in a dish and pour a bottle of vinegar into it, then add 1kg of kitchen salt. Add some water so the resin is filled to the top, then stir.
You can soak the resin in HCl but vinegar is cheaper and easier to obtain. It must soak for some time, you can stir from time to time with something made out of wood. You can also gently heat, but avoid boiling.
Now it's the "soup" part. To 20 litre saucepan put poppy straw, fill with water and boil. Press (knead? pinch?) it while boiling. Water will become brown. Strain (filter) it and leave only the liquid (remove all solid things).
Strain (filter) the ion-exchange resin and carefully rinse with water. If the resin was soaked in HCl, you have to rinse very carefully and precisly.
Put the ion-exchange resin in a bowl/basin and pour the filtered "soup" on it. It must soak for a few hours, longer=better, approx. 3-5 hours. You have to stir, because the ion-exchange resin is heavy and will descend to the bottom. Don't heat. The resin is absorbing opiates.
Then strain (filter) the soup from the upper part and throw it away (you can flush it in the toilet). The soup is sweet, because the resin took all bitterness.
You have to put the ion-exchange resin in a new saucepan and fill with water (only to cover the resin + 4-5cm more over the resin). Add 250-300ml of 25% ammonia water to the saucepan. Then, while stirring, boil it for 5-6 minutes.
When the water becomes darker, you have to strain (pour) it to some container and keep. It is the first fraction - the most powerful. You have to pour water again on the resin, add ammonia water, boil and pour another fraction to another container. It can be repeated for 10 times, the last fraction has a light-straw colour (like urine?
. You should not mix the succesive solutions.
Now you have to evaporate water from every fraction. You can do it in a saucepan. It's gonna leave a pitchy (like tar) substance on the bottom of the saucepan. It's called (the tar-like substance) a "plaster" or "honeycomb". It should be entirely dry, you have to care and check not to burn it.
The plaster (or "honeycomb") can be washed with ether or acetone. Add some acetone to the saucepan to dissolve the plaster, the rest of it take with some cotton wool soaked with acetone. Everything has to be put in one dish.
Now you have to vaporize acetone from the plaster on an electric cooker or iron.
When the most of acetone is vaporized, but not the whole acetone, you have to add 5-6 drops of acetic anhydride (using a dropper) to the dissolved plaster.
The plaster has to be vaporized until it is entirely dry, because acetic anhydride is a poison.
What is left dissolves in small amounts of water, approx. 20-30 cm(3). It is the "kompot".
The whole production has a specific smell.
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I hope this will be useful to any of you...I'm not the author of this text, it is written by people who once produced kompot in Poland...
There is also a very simple method of heroin production from opium (from poppy). I can also translate it if you want.