Dear Nexians
A character in a piece of musical theatre I am planning to write has just sucessfully extracted 2.8g xtals from 500g mimosa using STB method.
However on first use, our protaganist had a wonderful time, however woke up very short of breath and felt like that for a umber of days. He then realised that he had totally forgotten and failed to do an evaporation test (yes what a plonker). On then doing so with some remaining unused solvent he found it to leave quite a considerable amount of oily residue on the glass, which a moth then landed in and died just to prove the point...
So, now our protaganist must clean up the product, as it is currently highly toxic and unsafe for consumption.
He discovered this post Approach at Cleaning Solvent Residue in DMT - FAQ - All your basic questions and answers - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus recommending FASA for the same purpose, and is in posession of clean acetone and fumaric acid, however he fails to understand how this would remove the impurities. If xtals and fumaric acid are combined in the acetone and fumarate crystals form, but then the acetone is evaporated, then surely he will be left with fumarate crystals still with the solvent residue which has proven not to evaporate. He then mixes fumarate crystals with sodium carbonate to form freebase again, and mixes with acetone, at which point the freebase dissolves into acetone but sodium carbonate will not. he then filters out sodium carbonate. But as the impurities that he wants to remove are oily and not solids, will they not also pass through the filter along with the acetone containing the freebase? Or perhaps he is missing something, does one pass the acetone containing fumarate salt in the first stage through a filter instead of evaporation? but in the case wouldn't the oily solvent impurities become stuck in the filter along with the salt?
So he is now thinking of doing a mini A/B instead, would this clean it up better? But thinking about this, he is also wondering how this would work - would the naptha pulls with pure solvent (he now has a solvent which passes the evap test with flying colours), not also pick up the impurities from the old solvent, as they are probably soluble in naptha?
Regarding the mini A/B, he thinks he understands how to do it, but is unsure regarding quantities of vinegar, lye, and naptha, and he is finding it difficult to find out.
He is also concerned that he has just had xtals sitting in coffee filters in an airtight box at room temp with just one little sachet of silica gel for about 2 months now and is prettty concerned that his product may already be quite diminished?
Many thanks for your help!!
A character in a piece of musical theatre I am planning to write has just sucessfully extracted 2.8g xtals from 500g mimosa using STB method.
However on first use, our protaganist had a wonderful time, however woke up very short of breath and felt like that for a umber of days. He then realised that he had totally forgotten and failed to do an evaporation test (yes what a plonker). On then doing so with some remaining unused solvent he found it to leave quite a considerable amount of oily residue on the glass, which a moth then landed in and died just to prove the point...
So, now our protaganist must clean up the product, as it is currently highly toxic and unsafe for consumption.
He discovered this post Approach at Cleaning Solvent Residue in DMT - FAQ - All your basic questions and answers - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus recommending FASA for the same purpose, and is in posession of clean acetone and fumaric acid, however he fails to understand how this would remove the impurities. If xtals and fumaric acid are combined in the acetone and fumarate crystals form, but then the acetone is evaporated, then surely he will be left with fumarate crystals still with the solvent residue which has proven not to evaporate. He then mixes fumarate crystals with sodium carbonate to form freebase again, and mixes with acetone, at which point the freebase dissolves into acetone but sodium carbonate will not. he then filters out sodium carbonate. But as the impurities that he wants to remove are oily and not solids, will they not also pass through the filter along with the acetone containing the freebase? Or perhaps he is missing something, does one pass the acetone containing fumarate salt in the first stage through a filter instead of evaporation? but in the case wouldn't the oily solvent impurities become stuck in the filter along with the salt?
So he is now thinking of doing a mini A/B instead, would this clean it up better? But thinking about this, he is also wondering how this would work - would the naptha pulls with pure solvent (he now has a solvent which passes the evap test with flying colours), not also pick up the impurities from the old solvent, as they are probably soluble in naptha?
Regarding the mini A/B, he thinks he understands how to do it, but is unsure regarding quantities of vinegar, lye, and naptha, and he is finding it difficult to find out.
He is also concerned that he has just had xtals sitting in coffee filters in an airtight box at room temp with just one little sachet of silica gel for about 2 months now and is prettty concerned that his product may already be quite diminished?
Many thanks for your help!!
