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The Hive => Serious Chemistry => Topic started by: tropine on July 14, 2003, 03:54:00 AM

Title: Arecoline analogue...freebase success! But....
Post by: tropine on July 14, 2003, 03:54:00 AM
So going exactly by the paper, arecoline freebase was successfully synthesized, as a thick yellow oil, which is somewhat soluble in ether.  After diluting the oil in ether, and bubbling HCl gas through, the solution turns white and it appears to have some nice crystals fall out of solution.  However, the majority of the oil stay at the bottom of the flask, with the milky white layer on top.  If this milky white layer is separated and evaporated down (to yield the crystals, as they go right through a filter paper) one is left with a trace of yellow oil in the flask and no crystals.  It seems that these crystals are so small that they go back into the oil phase.  After this anti-climax I re-read the paper and noted that the authors gassed the methanolic solution of the freebase.  So adding about 75% methanol to the ether/freebase solution, the oil immediately went into solution, it dissolves very nicely in methanol.  Then takling this methanol solution, HCl gas is bubbled through and......no noticable change!!!  Any suggestions as to what is going on?
Title: I meant the chlorophenyl-arecoline product
Post by: tropine on July 14, 2003, 03:58:00 AM
was synthed!  But why oh why won't those pretty crystals form!
Title: I geuss I shoudl also note that I did not
Post by: tropine on July 14, 2003, 04:03:00 AM
crystalize before hand from Ethyl Acetate and Hexane like the paper says, maybe this is where the trouble comes from.  It could be that the oil (chlorophenyl-arecoline), being impure has some crap that is unfirendly to cyrstalization...
Title: Impurities
Post by: Aurelius on July 14, 2003, 04:13:00 PM
can cause some substances to crystallize more easily, and unfortunately, some become much harder to do the same.  basify, extract, distill, clean the product as the paper states, and then crystallize as they state.  They gave that method for a reason.  Until you've succeeded using their method don't bother with trying other methods.  Experimental can come later after a good sample base has been synthesized for data collection and comparison.

Title: Great
Post by: pericles on July 18, 2003, 05:11:00 AM
Once you get past this, be sure to let us know how the bioassay turns out.
Title: I always thought that gassing freebase cocaine
Post by: El_Zorro on July 25, 2003, 01:46:00 AM
I always thought that gassing  freebase cocaine wasn't a widely practiced procedure because the cocaine molecule was very vulnerable to strong acids and bases.  That's why NaOH isn't used to basify the HCl salt.  So just use the crystallization procedure that most people use for regular cocaine freebase.

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(andromeda: "Cocaine Base to Hydrochloride Method", Methods Discourse)