Thanks everybody,
SWIM has got his magnetic stirrer and hotplate. Did amazing thing for his dream of MDP2P, got some safrole looking(clear) oil over from 120C(which safrole came @ 90C). When it reached 150C, it started to have slight blue tone, but was very clear.
As for his NaOH washes, he had many incidents of not able to see the layers forming, could be due to too dark. So, he just guess the amount to be left in NaOH, then add another round of NaOH, a more visible tones were noticed. SWIM's a happy man, but starts to dislike this dirty wanker, oops, wacker oxidation.....