>1.At what rate do I need to do this addition?
>2.how do I do the addition?
Just slowly slowly pour one into the other (a couple minutes or so) with gentle stirring in an icebath.
>3.Do I need to rinse off the foil?
>4. how long does it take for this too happen 30 min?
Don't rinse off the foil with this method, takes about ~20 minutes. Bright Star likes to prepare the amalgam then wash it, I personally think it's harder to do it that way.
>5. just add the two back to back,dump in?
Yes, just dump them both in.
>Let run 5 hrs with external heat. keep light reflux.
>this means what?just before steam comes out the mouth of column?
Basically, I just let it run, it should stay at a low heat then start to cool, when it does, throw up the tempearture to bring it up to a light reflux and use up all of the foil...
>Then extracted with tolly,washed tolly with water,filtered tolly,washed again ,then dried ,and gassed.
>This was pretty vague.
There's other workups you can use. I don't like how Bright Star extracted with IPA, I think it's better to do it with toluene (like how MM worked up his reaction). Filtering the toluene seems to be the fastest way to clean up the toluene for gassing.