Ühe poti amfetamiini süntees P2NP-st NaBH4/CuCl2-ga (1kg skaala)

[pekonias]

I don't anderstand what is happening? I used 300g NaBH4 2.07 L IPA, 1.03 L dH2O, 173g P2Np 22g CuCl.2H2O and everything went well - reaction over and I add 0.4 L 25% NaOH sol. to get (pH 13.5) separate layers but... there's wery little separation. The aq. layer was only 0.3L so now I have 2.2 L organic layer, more than starting IPA + H2O (2.1 L). So does organic layer now contains NaOH? The pH after reaction was ~12 and there was no layer separation so I added the 0.4 L NaOH sol. What should I do now? Add more NaOH sol. and vacuum distill? Maybe acidify to pH <=3 and distill. Please advice guys.

 

[pekonias]

Obviously I can't count, actually got correct volume for the organic part and also extracted the sludge with 0.3L IPA. It's very confusing when told to add NaOH to pH 12 when it's already at that after reaction. Also aq. part seems to small but it's mostly in the black mud. Going to go ahead with water aspirator vacuum distilling off the IPA and hopefully not lose all product like last time. I think got too hot 80C with -28" Hg vacuum last time. Maybe report how it went tomorrow if has any luck.

 

[two777]

what is the optimal temperature for a-oil, before you start the extraction/ crystallization process using sulfuric acid? Usually im working with room temperature oil, and adding acid gradually, by not extending temperatures above 40c.

 

[GhostChemist]

this is right

 

[pekonias]

Follow up to my previous post, copule observations made during the process I think are important to share. This was really my very first success at this. From 173g P2NP I got ~130ml clear oil. What I wanna say is that now, compared to the previous experiment, was very different at the step when CuCl added. Previously added it dropwise and the temperature didn't increase at all, no storm in flask and only gave test subjects a runny nose. Now had twice as much and better quality P2NP. Also 10% of the NaBH4 was added later, after most P2NP had been added but it don't seem make no difference. So the CuCl was added added in 3 bursts of 10ml each and very violent reaction was observed (~1/4 CuCl soln. was left unadded). After each 10ml addition the reaction almost came out of the flask but not quite and the temperature increased dramatically. The Rm was 3.1 L in 5 L RBF. Temp reached 78C after third addition and the surface / foam level stayed really high for a minute and the reflux from the two ball condensers poured down IPA/H2O like hell. Unreal sight but it happened and I think the reflux prevented temp. going > 78C. So I much rather want the violent reaction then I know something is really cooking and reacting. The organic layer was condensed in -26.25" Hg vacuum BP 37-38C. Vacuum dist. stopped when 1.8 / 2.2 L liquid was removed (BP. was 41.8C at end). Then steam distilled. First 100ml of distillate thought to be water and almost thrown away! It's A-Oil! Thinking drying some of it by mixing 50ml Oil with 300ml? dry IPA and giving it 20g silica gel and let sit overnight. How much H2O should the vacuum distilled IPA contain? Would be nice to re-use it. I measured its density to be ~0.8g/ml which is that of IPA (0.786g/ml) within the measurement accuracy?