SWIC finished a 1.5gm reaction a few weeks ago, and after adding plenty (too much) D-H20, he split the crystal clear water into 2 portions, so that if he messed the first one up, he would still have some to tinker with and retrieve some goods. Well the first one was A/Bd with naptha and recovered almost nothing from hours of work. From no fault of his own he believes. There was some there, but not worth the effort so far.
Now SWIC has turned to the second crop, and the most crazy thing has happened. He began by washing the crystal clear yellow water extract with turps 100%. SWIC noticed that as soon as he began to shake, the turps turned a strange red colour. Also, and this is what is really perplexing SWIC, a strange white oil precipitated upon shaking. that formed a layer b/w the turps (top) and water (bottom) and seemed now insoluble in both... SWIC drained the yellow water layer away in his sep funnel, and gave the red turps layer a shake. The milky white oil fell to the bottom, and SWIC has saved about 3ml of the oil in a measuring cylinder, which also has about 1ml of red turps and 3ml of yellow water. SWIC has also noticed that after about 5 washes of the yellow water with turps, that aside from there being seemingly endless amounts of this milky oil, the previously clear yellow water layer is now cloudy. Is SWIC just removing some wierd sort of gakk do you think? SWIC was hoping that this might bee freebase meth, but that seems impossibe.