hi, I'n a newbie who's been recently slef-studying chem...I've got a friend (A) that's been poking around into hydrocodone chem recently. While he was looking into it, namely to acid base extract of hydrocodone from the bitartrate its attatched to, but he got somewhat bewildered while thinking of how tartartic acid has 2 H groups, and whether the NaOH he would be adding would totally seperate the hydrocodone from tthe bitartrate, or if the Na would simply bind to the open end of the bitartrate, leaving something like H18C21NO3*NaC4H4O6...
another friend (B) told him he was just thinking wayy too much about it and that the NaOH would fully react giving H18C21NO3 + Na2C4H4O6...which one might hypothetically be right?