Anyways, there IS a whole hell of a lot of ketone in the water...possibly 20 % or so.Hydrolyze it with a 'la methylman with the HCl/water.P did bigger scales so needed help..has a cordless drill with one of those paint mixers on it,not the dinky plastic ones but the steel spiral thingy used for mixing 20 l pails of paint..stir the hell out of it and let it sit 10 minutes.Then decant off as much water as you can, if a little black red raw ketone goes over,dont worry.Take the raw thick ketone(and small layer of water emulsion) and put in your sep funnel(pop bottle,car boy,what have you) and let this sit till it looks ok.Seperate, and put the water emulsion in with the other water.Now extract with DCM,using your mixer(agitate the hell out of it)..seperate, and the first will be almost as dark as the raw ketone and dump this in with your raw ketone.Do it again,seperate and the DCM will be lighter red and the water will be lighter as well.P does it untill the DCM is almost clear..dont be cheap on the DCM, it just takes an extra 10 minutes to distill it off for reuse (with aihlins condensor).
Water and DCM are slightly miscible,and doing the wacker takes all day, so put the final DCM/ketone/water mix in the freezer.In the morning you will have a layer of ice to pull off.Distill off the DCM, small bit of water then vac distill the ketone.Then redistill this.You will have very pure ketone to play with.
Put plastic down everywhere as it is messy,and the ketone will melt your freezer plastic and wreck your My Weigh top.
Don't stand over the DCM/water mix,as the DCM is boiling off.Easy