Following on from my previous posts...
Swix gathered all his shitty leftovers of ephedra, ephedrine and pseudo; based it all up, and steam distilled to leave 6 grams of ephedrine hcl.
Swix then bought some match boxes and cut the strips (400 strips in total). Placed in jar and covered with methanol. After 20 mins, Swix got gloved up and rolled and rubbed the strips against each other and after much playing, all the RP had came off and the paper was still intact. RP was then washed in gently boiled methanol, dH20, acetone, HCL acid; a few times and left to dry. RP had very few specs of paper and felt baby powder smooth and a looked a deep red/purple. Yield from 400 strips a little over 2 grams final dry product.
HI was made using KI and phosphoric acid. Basically, equal quantities placed in flask, heated as hot as i could get it, and the HI liquid and gas came over and condensed to a dark red solution. This was then weighed and concentrated to a density of 1.7g/mL.
These ingredients were placed in a rb flask on an oil bath. The ammouts were 6g eph, 2 gram RP and 15mL 57% HI. These were refluxed for 24hrs at a gentle reflux temp of about 115`c in solution. The solution started dark red and was swirled every couple of hours. It ended up clear with crystaline skinning appearing on top of the liquid.
The post reaction liquid was diluted with dH2O, washed 2x with NP solvent, based with aqueous NaOH and steam distilled. Thick oil layer was observed on top of 300 mls distillate. All the distillate was pH'd to 7 and evaporated at 80`c in open doored oven. White / clear crunchy powder/crystals were scraped and weighed a tad over 3 grams.
Swix then tried to recrystalise but came a little unstuck. The product was dissolved in hot methanol and a little acetone added. Slowly cooled to room temp then covered with ice in small esky and left 8hrs. Nothing was floating in the cold methanol. Swix then evaporated the methanal at low temp and revealed 3grams of white/clearish soft crystals (hard to describe). But not like big solid hard meth crystals (which Swix wants)
Swix gathered his trusted gineau pigs and bioassay was fantastic. Swix sat in the same spot on his bed with the gineau pigs for 12 hours and didnt move, just chatted our little asses off. Very clean and nice up, stay up, little waves., then slowly down (2 days later), no crash.
Swix hypothesises that the mixture was a good mix of meth and iodo meth. This may account for non-predicted reXtalisation and look of product. Swix thinks his next batch should be hotter and for longer to push more conversion to meth (and its nice marketable crystals). Swix would appreciate any input from Bees, regarding his reaction parameters, or perhaps recrystalisation procedure (eg 'dry' his solvent, add less for nano scale etc)
Thankyou