Well, SWIRT has UTFSE until his hands are as numb as his brain, and he can't find any good answers to this:
Final product (rxn parameters to follow) melts to green, recrystallizes on foil to pink/red.
2gPfed/1.6gMBRP/2.4gI from tincture were combined in a 50ml Erlenmeyer flask, 1ml dH20 added before adding I2. Normal reaction seemed to occur at ~100 C. Cooked for 2.5 hours, everything seemed fine. (before SWIRT gets roasted for this, he was in a hurry and wanted something for the wife to be UP while he was LWRing)
Workup was as follows:
Filtered using charmin plug
Washed 3x, with cool, warm, really warm naptha
Based with 20% RDL/dH20
3x water volume of naptha was added, then washed (30min sit time) 2x with dH20
Gassed with Al/HCl dried over CaCl2
Snowy snowy snowy, just like Christmas
washed with acetone, recrystallized 2x via dual solvent
Beautiful crystals...that melt to green and crystallize to red/pink.
WTF is this?
Bioassay says twweeeeeekkkkkyyy shit.
Is this a contaminant from using RDL rather than NaOH lg?