OK Swim is wondering if anyon could help someone who is dreaming. Swim is dreaming of thermally rearranging 1-hydroxycyclopentyl-(o-chlorophenyl)-ketone-N-methylimine into ketamine however he has a problem!!! It gives a solvant of decalin...
Now I am wondering why this solvant was choosen to do this rearrangement and if there is another possible answer so that swim may continue to dream in technicolor... Also if any bee knows the ratios for solvant to reactant... much appreciated... on Rhodiums site it says that it's 2.0g in 15ml of decalin however I do believe that is not scaleable at all... Swim would assume less decanlin if I say used 200g I wopuld not uses 1.5 L.. that seesm completely over kill but I could be wrong.. also..
btw I am rewritting a complete freebase--> Hydrochloride rxn write thingy for ketamine because GaRtRoN's is (even tho I helped) not very efficient... anwyays I'll keep the bees posted...
Edit: First off my ketamine conversion thingy is done.. waiting final looking over by another friend tho... also I found that I could also probably use Tetralin, but this does not help me.... grrrr.. also another person said that (decalin and Tetralin
) are used as subsitues for turpintine... but can turpine be uysed as a substitue for them?? help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!