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Using Acetone as Solvent?

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MaxL21

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I tried a first A/B extraction and I'm waiting on the results, in the meantime I was wondering, since the "usual" solvents are kinda hard to come by where I'm from, would it be possible to do pulls with acetone instead of naphtha/hexane/whatever and then make the DMT drop as Fumarate by adding fumaric acid?
I know Fumarate is not the preferred result but I don't mind and using acetone would make it a lot easier for me, I know acetone is polar, but DMT solves well in it anyway so I don't know if it can work, it's just an idea that would simplify things for me.
 
MaxL21 said:
I know acetone is polar,
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Acetone is also partially miscible in water so the separation that is normally so helpful would not be there. So no this would not work, if you use something like xylene or toluene you could use that to pull and then use FASA or FASI for crashing out the dmt.

If you do a search on FASA or FASI you can find many topics on this.
 
Thank you, I feared something like that. The problem for me is finding the solvents like xylene/toluene, the only thing I could find easily is hexane.
I'll do more research about the methods you mentioned, looks interesting.
 
MaxL21 said:
Thank you, I feared something like that. The problem for me is finding the solvents like xylene/toluene, the only thing I could find easily is hexane.
I'll do more research about the methods you mentioned, looks interesting.
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So why bother with the other ones, hexane is perfect for extraction.
 
acetone technically can be salted out of a saturated solution of lye, someone did a thread about this, however, it wastes an absolutely massive amount of lye doing so that barely makes up for the convenience of the acetone as a solvent. its also super complicated to determine where the saturation/seperation points are.

Another solvent available is limonene.
paint thinners tends to just be toluene mixed with acetone and ethanol, with a little xylene or ethylbenzene. look up the MSDS of thinners available to you. you can remove the acetone and alcohol just by adding water to it and seperating it out that way. acetone will leave the toluene for water
Look up nearby cleaning chemical suppliers, they tend to have big bottles of shellite (naptha) and other misc solvents.
Im also told heptane is a preffered lighter fluid.

Most hardware stores should stock xylene however. if they dont, look at paint shops instead. there isnt really anything other than toluene that can replace xylene for what its used for.
 
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