ok my dear,
its okay, dont be embarassed....you cant imagine what people sometimes ask on here...but
no matter your skill level, you seem to be reflective and thoughtfull at least....
SO:
- Dont need to use glacial acetic acid, grocery store (25%) white vinegar concentrate works!
- This reaction needs to be done in cold condition
- what pills formulation did u extract the PSE out of? (ingredients other than pse....)
- how did you apply the bisulfite? (dissolve in water first!)
- You described, a Naphtha extraction of pills, do you mean, you based the pill mass and extracted the freebase ? (otherwise you didn't get pse out, because its a hydrochloride and insoluble in non-polar solvents )
- in case you did extract by basing, did you convert it back via Hydrochloric acid (muriatic acid at stores)
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Here are some hints, based on your fails...
QUICK GENERAL GUIDING NO EXACT TUTORIAL !!!! BUT GETS PRODUCT IF THE PSEUDO IS PROPERLY
cLEAN EXTRACTED AND PREPARED.....ITS PRETTY GHETTO; BUT LETS STAY HONEST; MOST PEOPLE WANT TO DO THAT SHIT EASY AND CRAVING PRODUCT. I CAN EMPHATIZE AND DONT THINK MY NOSE IS UP IN HEAVEN.... BUT THE STIRPLATE IS A UNAVOIDABLE TOOOL IF YOU WANT TO SUCCEED BUT THERE ARE GOOD CHEAP ONES ON AMAZON NOW!
[2 500ml beakers + 2-3 100ml beakers + 2 20ml syringes + 12ml syringe is the least thats neccesary use kitchen-lab glassware, no masonjars AND NO CONTAINERS WHERE FOOD IS INGESTED OF avoid unresponsible behaviour, please.]
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so follow wisely folks:
dont be sad, important is, to learn from mistakes and even a failed attempt, brings you closer to get result...to get chemistry right, you cant go around to learn observing/reacting->developing a sense for your reagents and the right conditions.
please weigh and scale ...dont need sophisticated gear for this specific Task... a Beaker, some syringes with scale ....protective gear<<gloves eye protection and all that.
use the 3% one....but DILUTE it even further, and depending on how much starting material you want to oxidize....adjust the ratio-> USE: a beaker , 35ml DH2O/ 35ml H2O2 stablized, 3% (drugstore version)
--> mix it in the small beaker (pre -reaction) then dilute your pseudo in ethanol (very small amount, just to dissolve better)
make a 500 ml Beaker your reaction Vessel, prepare it with 100mlDH2O + 150ml Acetic Acid 25% ....Diluted pseudo should added at once. STIR thoroughly !!!! (buy a cheap magnetic stirplate for 60$ on amazon!)
prepare ice cubes and make a ice/ water bath filled container for your reaction vessel troughout the process, to control the selective oxidation...take a syringe (12ml) and fill it up....splash 6ml in the RM- while the magnetic stirrer is moderately running.
let it stir 5minutes....then turn off....let it react 20 mins....then repeat with the rest of the syringes mix..
do this three times (3x 12ml with mixed oxidant, in 2 equal parts...like above)
if you did all that (last 20min-reaction time over....) stir the hell out of the soup....meanwhile prepare your bisulfite solution....quench (there is something called corn starch test...lookitup)
it shows the "oxidation status" of sort...is it negative then ---> add 50ml naptha & COLD NaOH solution, until PH13....stir and let it seperate + colllect the naphta-freebase mix in a second vessel (use syringes to seperate, be careful only naphta not the r-fluid (aqueous-phase)
do 2 more extractings with same amount naptha. .....now add to the naptha poolings around 100ml of water and drop Hydrochloric acid (5% diluted to) a few drops ...STIR vigorously with plate... . grab a glass rod, dip it in die lower aqua phase, pull it up and push on to a ph paper(tip a few times, like you`d knock on a door ...)
do this procedure (called titration) until you reached PH 5,5....then discard naphtha (save, its reusable!) and the acidic water (which hopefully contains M-Cat you should put in a pyrex dish and gently boil it down- not to much heat!!! at the end, when it thickens-> throw a generous amount of acetone in & use a electric handheld fan device, to blow the remaining liquid quicker away....
scrape the crude hcl salt of M-Cath from bottom and rinse in the dish 3 times with dry acetone. collect this elsewhere, it crystalizes more cathinone out if you let stand openly...
let the salt dry and--ENJOY ---> ALREADY IN THE VAPING DOWN PROCESS YOU SHOULD SMELL KETONE ODOR...
its pleasant, sweet, like roses or some people say different fruit aromas....i find it speedy, like the phenylacetone from european speed(also a ketone)
I HOPE THIS IS VALUABLE FOR SOME FOLKS... until i make a top notch experimet journal with pictures, try this instead the toxic other routes !
STAY SAFE
BE NICE
ELEUSIFY YOUR KITCHEN and have a nice buzz if you succed by my guide
--->!
send a appreciation prayer out in the ether of the universe....
for your old Homie with the gasmask....( he`s probably smoking meth then ;-)
CHEERS