hmm, SWIM started distilling of DCM a lot of vapour was coming out of the system so in order not to stink up the lab SWIM put a hose on the end of the vacuum adaptor and put the other end into water and went for a cig, came back to the entire system backlogged with salted h2O, hmmm formed an interesting percepitate that SWIM filtered off, and procedded to distill, after this and another fuckup where the vacuum pump lost vacuum and oil; got sucked back into the recieving flask SWIM was able to recover 88g already had 26g from previous distillation, so overall decent yields considering the fuckup
Now for the interesting part, when SWIM started to clean up he noticed that the heating flask had a metallic finish to the inside bottom ( uh oh) so SWIM is assuming it's a sodium base, now how in hell does SWIM get this off!(dcm,Acetone, xylene, kerosene all didnt work0 maybe sulfuric acid of hydrochloric acid?