Now I know how napoleon felt when he lost the war against the russians..
failure.. seems like my life story. This bee's about to cash in the stinger.
Here's my sad tale:
100.12g/Paraformaldehyde
124.40g/Ammonium Chloride
165.78g/dH2O
was combined in a 1L 2N RBF in a simple distillation setup and heated over oil. Took me almost all day until i finaly got the temp stable at around 106C. Kept it there for the 4 hours (even a bit more), then pulled the flask out of the bath, chilled it in an ice water bath, filtered out the NH4Cl precipitate (chunky white powder substance.. no clue why folks call it "crystals"), and put it back in the oil bath.
Cranked up the heat till half the soln (or thereabouts) evap'd out. Then took it out again, for a second chilling, only this time like 98% of the soln turned into fucking NH4Cl precipitate!!!
I'm steering blindly here.
This is the NEWBEE forum. I've posted and posted and posted and all i fucking get is UTFSE. Well guess fucking what??? I've been doing nothing but that!! I've got every post on the subject practically memorized, not to mention printed, highlighted, and underlined. I may not be a genius like some of the more experienced beez come accross, but i'm not brain dead either. Most of the write ups on the MeAm synthesis aren't newbee material. They take for granted that you know a lot more then you might in reality. I had to cross reference between Shulgin, BS & Raffik to try & fill the gaps between steps. Supposedly it's all the same synth, but try and pull it off!
Anyways.. enough self pity. If anyone CARES to help me out, I'd appreciate it. If you're looking to stroke your ego by flaming me, do us both a favor and move on to the next fucking post. I've had all the knowledge flaunted in my face that I can take. I'm so fucking devastated over this failure I don't need more crap poured on my head.
Hope no bee has to go through feeling like this..
Peace -