purifying pedro tar (acetate)

[bluecurry]

So I boiled down some Pedro juice to a tar using vinegar. I intend to further purify the tar using acetone. I was wondering if I could make a number of pulls with the acetone, then reduce the volume and precipitate the mescaline by titrating with HCl.

Would this work?

 

[Entheogenerator]

You would have to convert the mescaline to freebase first. Even then, I'm not sure that HCl would precipitate the mescaline from acetone. You'd probably be better off following a tek...

 

[bluecurry]

I thought mescaline acetate was soluble in acetone and the HCl was not.... Wouldn't a chemical precipitate out of a solution in which it is not soluble?

 

[Entheogenerator]

I thought mescaline acetate was soluble in acetone and the HCl was not.... Wouldn't a chemical precipitate out of a solution in which it is not soluble?

I'm no expert on mescaline extraction, or chemistry by a long shot, so take my words with a grain of salt.

I am not sure whether or not mescaline acetate is soluble in acetone, but as far as I know mescaline acetate + HCl = mescaline acetate in an acidic HCl solution. Whereas mescaline freebase + HCl = mescaline HCl. I could be wrong though, seeing as HCl is a much stronger acid than acetic.

I think you'd be better off converting to freebase, then titrating with HCl. But I really don't know enough to definitively say that your method will or will not work.

Sorry I can't be of more help! :|
Hopefully someone with more knowledge on the subject will chime in.