And we aint talking bowel movements btw..
So good old Swimmy McSwims-a-lot ran himself a small 2 gram reaction, all went well, and the resultant rxn fluid was steam distilled etc.. Titratred, acetone flashed, what-have-you.. Yield looked pretty good judging from what went in..
He got some very nice looking bright white crystals/flakes.
Some was ingested, and found to be decent.
Burn test on foil revealed very little whitish residue.
All was splendid.. Until swim decided to recrystallize, at which point everything went motherfucking pear shaped.
He dissolved his shit in denatured alky, which was then heated to a boil. He noticed some fluffy looking shit forming in the alky as it was heating, and this was filtered out. He put the alky back on the heat to reduce it to saturation. As the alky approached saturation, it turned a redish color, and a sweet kinda marzepan smell was noted.
Not good. Swim evaporated a little of the alky in a glass dish, and the resultant product looked fine until it was scraped up, at which point it looked orange and was kinda gooey. He did a burn test on some foil, and the stuff bubbled and sizzled and turned bright red. Once it had vaporized, there was left a black looking residue on the foil.
"What the motherfucking fuck!?!", swim thought.
Now swim posts very rarely, choosing instead to UTFSE and usually finding answers to his questions. However he was unable to find anything really specific to this situation. Maybe it's due to the fact that the words he had to use for the search are quite common on this board. But anyway, he appologizes if this stuff has been dealt with before.
Also swim would like to add that he used red-hots as a source of p-fed, and used the KOH extraction method, which seemed to award him some fairly clean pseudo. He guesses it kinda looks like it may not have been so clean after all..
Anyway, if anyone could offer some advice on how to proceed, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!