I can't believe no one is posting reports about the yield of meth from pseudo extracted by this technique.
Remember the 9.6 gm of pseudo HCl SWIG got on his first attempt of the procedure, the one from Scottydog's favorite drug store white sixties? That 98% yield?
Added that and 5 grams of fairy fresh red phos, 11 gm of I2, 10 ml dH20, put in the oil bath with the condenser running and a balloon on the top....brought it up to temp and got the reflux going well...and left it for 48 hours.
SWIG's first incursion into the lab in five weeks was fraught with discoveries, like how light a one gallon can of xylene is and how empty that full gallon can of acetone is, and how naptha can just disappear into thin air without anyone knowing what the fuck is going on...I don't mind if the alchemist's assistant uses the equipment, but I hate like hell to find out I don't have supplies on hand and wind up at Wallyworld at two in the morning.
Rant over.
Very good smell, and the honey was very very pale whitish, maybe just a suggestion of yellow. Washed once with xylene then three times with TCE and once with hot naptha. The hot naptha was clean. I used boiling naptha to extract the goods two times, as that was all the naptha left in that new gallon...(grrrrr....where's that shotgun?) Did the third pull with the last of the xylene.
I started adding 20% NaOH solution and my suspicions were confirmed. Bubbles fizzed outta that fluid like from an only-left-open-since-this-morning soda--which is a good sign in this situation. The fluid based so quickly with so little NaOH solution it surprised me. I take that as a good sign.
(I forgot to mention that I had no emulsion, had a mirror-like interface, and had more bubbles fizz up when I added salt to the fluid.) For the fun of it (okay, odd sense of humor here) and to see whether there was any emulsion potential about, I shook the sep funnel with the fluid and xylene the same way I would shake the xylene and aquous HCl later-- I used the the same stomp dance and the regular chant.
SWIG does not recommend this to anyone, mind you. This is asking for emulsion hell and tempting the meth gods. He put the funnel in the ring stand and that mirror interface was right there, ready to shave by. No emulsion at all. The reaction fluid fell right to the bottom.
Okay,Okay...SWIG will cut to the chase.
Net yield: 7 grams of meth HCL, very nice sparkly white, not recrystalized due to the late hour and work today. This re-rocks
right now, has legs from here to Georgia, leaves almost no residue on glass unless incinerated. Nice! Has
no taste.
The last puff SWIG had was two o'clock this morning, or sixteen hours ago. You might
guess at the quality.
I figure that 7.8 or 7.9 grams of meth HCl from 9.6 grams of pseudo HCl would be a 100% reduction, so seven grams is a good number. I might expect that from a freebase reaction, maybe, but I didn't expect it from a HCl reaction. (To nettle the chemists, thats about a 72% yield by weight of the precursor or about eighty eight percent of the pseudo if its all meth-- and I haven't found anything else in it yet...
(Okay, okay...about a 67% molar yield. Sorry.)
OF COURSE the next question will be whether the yield is the product of the longer reflux, or the extraction technique.
Hey Scottydog! Grab them while you can!That seven grams of final product is from four boxes of white sixties...twenty five bucks worth of OTC pills.
You hear that Payin2Much? Well, gotta go now. Think I may take up cross country for the fun of it...even if it is July
VideoEditor: I believe!