Can someone please explain??

[k0dog]

Swim was just looking through some web pages and found these Chemical analysts papers.  On 2 of them they said Hydroxylimide(intermediates for ketamine) or hydroxylimide Hydrochloride(intermediates for Ketamine).

But they both had the same chemical formula. (either C13H16CLNO (freebase) or C13H16CLNO - HCL)  Does this make sense? can somebody explain the structural differences between these and real ketamine (C13H16CLNO - HCL)

All seem to be the same product but under different names. (or a free base of the hydrochloride salt)  Swim doesn't understand please help...

[Rhodium]

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The hydroxylimide is the compound to the right of the ketamine molecule. It can form a salt with hydrochloric acid, and thus it is available with or without a unit of HCl attached to the molecule.

Reference:

https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/pcp/ketamine.html

[Vaaguh]

shouldn't that be the compound to the right of the ketamine molecule ?

[Rhodium]

That's fully correct, I'll edit my post