OB1KNoBee, re:
And watch your temperature, don't let it go past 40°C, have some ice nearby to combat the temp if needed. Please post your ketone % yields . Very curious as to whether this is a worthy synth still.
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SWIM has run this synth about 6 times so far, SWIM is a very new chemist, still finding the right teqnique, but SWIM can tell you every synth resulted in ketone (which aminated), with fairly good yields, about 65-70%(of ketone, not the final product), considering SWIM's experience (5 months, most of which spent learning basic O-chem req for synth).
SWIM is having very low yields of final product, nothing consistant, and SWIM is trying to figure out why. Suspect it could be shitty vac resulted in a high temp for ketone dis (came over at 192C). Waiting on a proper rotery vane pump to verify.
But every batch has resulted in active product. SWIM's experience with MDMA limited (only twice that wasn't mine)... untill 1st batch (went a little overboard for a while... WOW, but SWIM doesn't have much to campare it to).
Because SWIM's not ready to invest in a moderately used mass spectrometer, have had to rely on the reviews of the more experienced. The only complaint was a few people saying the 125 mg dose was too strong. Obviously, not the worst thing someone could say.
Wanted to wait untill got the procedure down a little better before I posted, but...
I think every batch ran, at one point, above 40C. What would happen, low quality ketone, or failed run?
EDIT- some other interesting data: Quite a few questions on this, though not for a while:
100% or 85% oxone? -Used both, both work, just ajust the weight of 85% oxone to include the weight of oxone + sodium bicarb.
I experimented with adding 43% HCl, first diluted, then right out of the bottle

, untill the silt dissolved (I was waiting on a buchner funnel, so I couldn't suction filter). But I want to do an identical run with and without, to see if it affects yields or ketone quality.