Here are 2 different ways of saying the same thing...
the are copied from rhodium's site...
they call for diethyl ether.... fuck.
i could go that route but i don't want to risk a city block on it.
could DCM or petrolium ether work instead? or any other good substitutes?
#1
When the reduction is complete, the catholyte is filtered, evaporated in vacuum and the residue taken up in 300 cc water Unreduced nitrostyrene is extracted sucessively with ethyl acetate and with ether. The crude mescaline hydrochloride solution in a separatory funnel is then treated with a cold concentrated solution of 100 g. of sodium hydroxide and theliberated base exhaustively extracted with ether. The somewhat concentrated
and dried (potassium carbonate) solution is treated with a stream of dry hydrogen chloride and the separated hydrochloride twice recrystallized from absolute alcohol.
#2
After the finished reduction, the contents of the cathode cell was filtered and dried under vacuum. The remainder was then dissolved in 300ccm water. Any remaining unchanged nitrostyrene was removed by twice shaking it out with ethyl acetate. The ester in the solution was then removed by shaking out once with diethyl ether.
The liquid thus obtained of chloride of mescaline was then put in a separating funnel which had ether added. The amine was freed with a cold concentrated solution of technical sodium hydroxide. The solution obtained, after extracting four times with ether, etc... pure hcl salt