 would this ice synthesis work?
The production and purification of pseudoepehdrine free base
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Buy sudafed capsules; the more the merrier!
Method: Take 10 sudafed capsules apart, and place the little round granules
into a clean dish. These granules contain the pseudoephedrine hydrochloride
and inorganic filler. Crush the granules until they are no more than a very
fine powder. I suggest using the 100 milligram capsules at this point.
Approximate end yield will be roughly 1 gram of product.
Place 100 mls of room temperature water into the extraction funnel,
and CAREFULLY add all of the powdder into the funnel. Place a cap on the
funnel, invert, and open the stopcock. MAKE SURE YOU ARE WEARING YOUR SAFETY
GOGGLES AT THIS POINT! Swirl the funnel around to dissolve the material.
There will be a significant amount of undissolved white powder; do not be
concerned, this is inorganic filler. After 10 mins of shaking, dip a glass
rod into the liquid and touch the drop on the tip of the stirring rod to a
piece of moist BLUE litmus paper. The litmus paper should turn red where it
has been touched. This means that the solution is acidic, and that a
significant proportion of the pseudoephedrine hydrochloride has in fact
dissolved in the water. If the litmus paper has turned red, you can go on to
the next step. If not, repeat he shaking 5 more minutes until the litmus
paper does turn red.
Add 50 mls of diethyl ether to the separation funnel. BE VERY CAREFUL AT THIS
STAGE. MAKE SURE YOU ARE WORKING IN A WELL VENTILATED AREA AND PLEASE DON'T
DO SOMETHING FUCKING STUPID LIKE SMOKE CIGARETTES OR YOU DESERVE WHAT WILL
HAPPEN! YOU DESERVE TO GET LUNG CANCER OR HAVE YOUR FUCKING FACE BLOWN OFF!
The diethyl ether is less dense than the water solution and will float on top.
Add 10 mls of the 1 molar sodium hydroxide, cap the funnel, invert and
IMMEDIATELY release the stopcock to vent off the gas that forms. Point the
end of the funnel AWAY from your eyes! Periodically swirl and vent the funnel
to release any gas. When no more gas is given off after venting, draw off a
little of the liquid from the lower layer into a thimble. Test it with a piece
of moist RED litmus paper. If it stays red, add 10 more mls of the sodium
hydroxide solution, invert funnel, swirl and vent until no more gas is given
off. Repeat this UNTIL the red litmus paper turns blue. At this stage, the
water solution is basic, the pseudoephedrine hydrochloride is in the free base
form, and is located entirely within the diethyl ether layer.
Draw off the lower water layer and discard it. Pour off the ether
layer into a beaker with 10 grams of anhydrous sodium sulfate. The sodium
sulfate is a drying agent and will remove most of the water that is in the
ether solution (very little really since ether is non polar and water is very
polar). Cap the beaker with a piece of saran wrap and let it sit in a well
ventilated COOL area overnite (not the fridge). Don't smoke within 2 miles of
this. Ether is FLAMMABLE and forms EXPLOSIVE peroxides which tend to
spontaneously detonate.
Decant off the ether into a dry round bottom flask. Heat this flask
over a pot of very hot water. This will take only a few minutes to evaporate.
You will be left with a clear syrupy liquid that looks like childrens tylenol
drops. This is the pure pseudoephedrine free base. If you have a death wish,
you can try some now (scoop it up with a spoon, a toothpick, etc). Swallow
it, or put it on a cigarette and smoke it. I don't care. You're stupid if you
do.
Production of methylamphetamine free base
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Add the 95% ethanol or everclear drop by drop until the sludge is
dissolved. It should go into solution very easily. I doubt it if many people
will be able to get 100% ethanol, but the purer the better, since trace
amounts of water inhibit the next step in the preparation.
Total volume should not exceed 50 mls at this point. You can make
the solution up to 50 mls if you wish. VERY carefully add 1 gram of sodium
borohydride to the solution, add the relux condensor to the top of the round
bottom flask, and start to boil the mixture (eg, on a hot plate...NOT on an
open flame. The cold water going thru the reflux condensor will keep the
ethanol from evaporating, yet the high temperature of the reaction vessel will
allow the reaction to go forward as desired. Let this go for about 4 hours.
Take away from the hot plate and let cool slowly to room temperature.
AFTER the solution has cooled to room temperature, add 50 mls of
saturated salt solution. At this point, you should see little oil drops
floating on the surface of the liquid. This is methylamphetamine. Add 50 mls
of diethyl ether to the COOLED flask( room temperature is ok ). Transfer the
contents to a separatory funnel, cap, invert, and IMMEDIATELY open the
stopcock. Some gas will escape. Close the stopcock, gently swirl, and open to
vent off and gas. Repeat until no more pressure developes after 5-10 seconds
of gentle agitation.
Draw off the lower layer and set aside for a moment. Drain the upper
ether layer into a beaker containing 10 grams of sodium sulfate. Add the layer
that you had set aside BACK to the separatory funnel, and add another 50 mls
of ether. Cap, invert, vent, etc until NO more pressure developes. Drain off
the lower water layer and discard. Drain the ether layer into the beaker with
the first portion of ether. Cover this with saran wrap and let sit over nite.
Decant the ether solution into a clean beaker and gently heat this
over very hot water. As the ether evaporates( please use good ventilation ),
you will be left with a beige sludge. This beige sludge is methylamphetamine.
You can do two things at this stage; i) Prepare 'glass' for smoking or
freebasing (very fucking stupid), or prepare crystal meth for shooting up
(very very fucking stupid).
i) if you want to prepare solid ice, stick the beaker in the freezer,
and hope that crystal formation starts. If it doesn't, take 5 or 6
chemistry course and you'll learn where you fucked up.
ii) if you want to prepare `crystal' for shooting up, dissolve the beige
ice in about 10 mls of anhydrous (very dry) diethyl ether. Add ethereal
HCL drop by drop. After each drop, you'll see a little white suspension
form. This is methylamphetamine hydrochloride. Add ethereal HCL until
no more white powder forms. You could then decant off any ether, and
let the powder dry on tinfoil or whatever. This should be 90% pure.
Reliabilty of this synthetic method: It works, and in a lab, you can go from
starting material to finished product in about 8 hours IF you know what
you're doing (and you probably don't). To the best of my knowledge, this has
never been published, but the general reaction scheme of catalyic
hydrogenolysis is well documented. At ALL stages, glassware should be kept
very dry.
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