Just as a head up basstabone the idea of making caffeine pills does not set well at all with me considering no-doze is over the counter. If indeed you are making fake whatever pills please stop for the sake of all underground chemist reputations. We have enough to worry about without fear mongering DEA talking about fake this and that floating around the street. Forgive me if I misjudged but I see no other need to make any form of caffeine pills.


Tighter seal with petroleum jelly is not needed. Try a jar and you will see. They where made to keep these things sealed for years on end without letting even bacteria in. The surface tension H2O forms is wayyy bigger then the size of bacteria. Even if it gets slightly damp its nothing at all to dry it again so no need to really worry about it at all since its cheep and easy to remake.

@basstabone - It all depends on the vice.  Think of mechanical advantage - if you have a very large vice, and it is held down very very securely, you could add a 'cheater bar' making the mechanical advantage very high.  For the same reasons sedit suggest, I can't give a whole lot more information, so don't post back describing your vice hahaha.  I have no interest in what you're pressing, but I can only imagine it's custom dose levels of vitamins, caffeine, or amino acids.  Just know that if the tablets are not strong enough, you have to step up to better means of compression (such as a hydraulic press).

@sedit - I don't know for sure, but I believe that the dissolving metal reaction will not adversely affect the alkane.  I know they are not strong enough to hydrogenate rings, and there are no unsaturated bonds from what I'm guessing.

I'm curious....

Is there any reason why the benzoquinone can't be generated in-situ in a p-methoxyphenol synthesis?

Hey Ho, got a question with respect to ammonium acetate.. I remeber once mixing NH3OH and GAA, till pH 7 and placing this in a cupboard that was in a position that was dark and cold, I forgot, and returned aound 2 maybe 3 months, and found crystals. I now think that the purity would not be their, and besides that, I have looked for it now for a cople of days(3), and cannot find it.. I have since tried to repeat, albeit placing it in a very low heat oven, say 40 C..Which ended up not crystalising..(daH).So giving this some ACTUAL thought, the vapor pressure of the aquarious base, is higher than the acid, hence the loss of NH3, and difficulties, to do this by simple evaparation.

I then checked out SM here.. http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=12853
where, amongst a couple of ideas, it was suggested to allow a flow of NH3 to the surface of the mix.
I have since thought that perhaps if one added the base and acid, but instead slightly more base, and then heating slowly and low-  to remove the H2O., plus of course some of the NH3..and regularly check the pH, and always keeping it at around 7.5 and do so untill one is close to crystals..THis is just an idea,as I'd prefer not to have to run gasous NH3 over the mix.

ANy ideas, would be really welcomed..I dare say their is perhaps a much more easier method, and if anywhee, Here would have this. Thanks for any help, as I REALLY need this bigtime, but dont want to buy

Thanks mate, and yes I need to think the use of this, and also vacuum disciator may help if dry dry is required. thats if youve got crystals to begin with, which prompted my quizing....
What I am looking at here, is a condensation type reaction between phenylnitroethane and CH2O.  I dont want  a nitroaldol - other than as intermediate and want the alkene of 3-phenyl-2-nitroprop-1-ene. as final product, for this part of the reactions.....I am still learning the reaction albeit this one pretty well covered, but due to not finding that much regarding a K-type condensation between the phenylnitroethane and little old formaldehyde etc. I am just trying to think this through..

Does anyone have a hi-res copy of the hive bee picture?

The best one I have is http://i34.tinypic.com/2meln5.gif

I think it would go great on a shirt.

That was the minuteman flag, (wasnt it?)

btw; How hard would it be for you to increase the size of the avartars?

Wow, that is big! I like them better big, but maybe that is a bit big. I dont know, I guess it depends on what you and everyone else thinks. As long as it doesnt go back 65x65 I am happy, THANKS!

Got given this tab called zanax or something, not really into the benzo type things, but fuck, I went all slurry and slept for 16 hours.. Fuck, I m stillll all slurry and dazed, so it aint my thing...Also whilst Im here, and slllurrry, what is the best way to remove evidance of reactions that could be percieved by the FUCKS if they ever did the swob thing on glassware...I was thinking Caro's acid, but I vaguely remember Sedit saying something on these lines, due to potentially dumping this shit to remove everything..