With the clear(ish) solution, basify the fuk out of it... but it all depends on the inital amount of Psuedo,.
My personal rule of thumb is a table spoon per two grams, I know it's over-kill, but it does not affect yield, if anything it promotes, the break down of all the adulterants, and frees the majority of pseudo that can sometimes be stuck, in the binders,.
Leave this overnight as well, and depending on what pills you use, you will see a few colour changes happen,
i used one that was heavily gakked, with ambi polar gells, blue dye, and in sulfate form, it went from clear to orange to clearish,...
Once basified, and left for a day at least, it is time to drag it off with non-polar...Add your non-polar, say 100ml at first, and add to the heavily basic solution,
So now in your jar, with the basified clearish liquid, that now has a layer of non-polar solvent on the top, lid this and shake the crap out of it.And leave for 30 minutes,.
What is your rationale for watiing a day before adding a nonpolar solvent to extract the freebased amines from a heavily based solution? I realize you want to give the base time to work with the gakked pseudo, and time to liberate the freebase and make it polar soluble. That process would continue with nonpolar solvent present over the based fluid. The presence of the solvent would also reduce the concentration of freebased pseudo in the based solution, which might in itself help to liberate additional "trapped" pseudo molecules. Salting the water might also help the amine migrate to the non-polar.
My question is simply whether you have a factual basis for recommending the delay in adding the nonpolar solvent to the container with the basic water/pseudo/gakk mix. Conventional wisdom seems to run in favor of not leaving the pseudo in a strongly basic environment without a solvent for it to elute into for fear of damaging the pseudo molecules.
Is there some advantage to be obtained by allowing the water/pseudo/gakk mix to sit after heavy basing that is defeated by the presence of a nonpolar solvent? My impression is that the nonpolar solvent would absorb any available freebase pseduo as it became available, but would not absorb the amines that were yet to be released by a gakk. In either case, leaving the water mix covered with a third volume of nonpolar solvent overnight should suffice to extract any of the amines that were freebased over the course of a twenty four hour soak. Is there some secret here I have overlooked?
I am trying your cure with a number of Zyrtec D's which are sitting in water and soaking as I type this. I plan to decant the water and base it heavily this evening. I was curious as to why I should wait to add an extraction solvent for a day, although I understand the virtue of leaving the solution covered with a nonpolar solvent for twelve hours to a day. Comments?