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Can I just ask @FENTEMAS or anyone else really. I have a smallish amount of LAH as it’s alt but tbh - other than re-vaccuuming it with another layer and some moisture balls…. im just reading up on the practicalities of actually handling it and I need inert atmosphere to actually add it to the...

I am infinitely more confident in the purity of my nitromethane after using a fractionating collumn. Way more controllable. yesterdy I ended up with one solution of 50c-101c ‘junk’ and then probably the same amount of ‘dirty’ nitromethaje where I couldn’t get it to go above 101 with the collumn...

Hey @FENTAMAS, (Not sure how to direct a comment at someone, like you did to me) My GAA says 98.8% min - it’s been in the fridge overnight while I figure out the NM situation…I’m wondering if I should just chuck it in the freezer anyway and see if I get much water? I do actually trust the...

Wooo I just read the methanol times!? That’s insane! It makes sense and I am just more inc to use less solvent after last time where I used WAY too much!

im Gonna do one more perfect distillation of the NM and then will pro try the 10g one you mentioned using methanol as I have loads and you need less lol ill update tomorrow…it’s going to be a hot one though which is annoying…. is it really just a 1h reflux at 60c? That’s crazy effective….

Yeah I literally have it in my spreadsheet as 1.2-3 molar Equis’s as well only it was impure and I added double the amount by accident! There are so many places I went wrong to be fair - didn’t realise acetic acid was also used as a catalyst…. The reason I started this project is I do actually...

Oh you ABSOLUTE legendary character! I REALLY appreciate that, iv found some people on here don’t want to answer chem questions as they think it’s going to put you off and buy from them! Anyway - your numbers actually do correlate with mine. I have been on a distillation mission for some reason...

Honestly, I thought the ‘spotting’ part would be the hard bit - how wrong I was! Ha

Hey guys, I just read the TLC of drugs post on here. I am currently messing about with the Henry reaction but I have also been messing about with cold reductive animations of tryptamine - basically flying blind… I am a little confused - I was just messing around with what chatGPT suggested as...

Much appreciated. To be honest, a lot of what iv been learning has been through chatGPT and then looked up (usually on here, if I can’t find a free paper) to confirm what iv learnt is actually true. I believe I may have added too much methanol and not refluxed long enough. Today, I have been...

Okay, so I am in a position to try this first step now….tried it in a very similar manner the other day but used ethanol instead of IPA and forgot to adjust the length of reflux for the lower temp…I also didn’t do acetic acid…didn’t realise I needed it to be honest… Also, say I’m is on a small...

Will try again with ammonium acetate tbf… Unsure about solvent really. I may just have to bite the bullet and use the nitromethane. It’s just expensive and annoying because i can only get it 40% w/w with any solvent I choose - so I chose DCM, which worked well and I got a fair amount, however...

Also I’m using ethylenediamine as the catalyst…

Oh yeah I also added enough nitromethane for 10g of aldehyde and accidentally added 5g… I think I’ll try it again…this time ACTUALLY looking at the numbers! Ha What an idiot…

Okay, so I tried the nitroaldol reaction using ethanol as the solvent as I don’t have huge amounts of nitromethane to use as solvent as well. I stupidly refluxed for only two hours, not realising that the shulgin method from which the guy whose video I was watching took it from, was also using...

Okay good stuff, will avoid grease - as I have been doing anyway!! Haha tbf, I actually even avoid oil baths atm for this reason just because I *****ING HATE getting oil on everything! And it always go’s everywhere…. Therefore, I’m really glad you aren’t all saying “yeah you NEED grease!”

Ah do you know what, it actually isn’t as much to do with them getting stuck, as it is I’m concerned with what may be escaping and creating a smell. There is, however a bit of a story as to why - I think I was a little over worried about doing my first Henry / nitroaldol reaction lol It’s the...

I’m sorry to make so many really simplistic posts - in fact I can’t really believe iv come this far without knowing some of this stuff but hey, live and learn eh? So, what grease are you guys using for your joints? iv been looking up vacuum grease and it seems to be crazy expensive - one of...

Whoops. Double post. Yeah this can probably be deleted as when I distilled the product with 1-nitropropene, it doesn’t look like there was a significant quantity. just confused me when someone I know who makes psychedelics said he wanted some…. I was confused as to what for….I know he’s been...

So that’s my pointless story of how I am attacking these molecular puzzles! Seriously though, the amount you can learn in something like a year is CRAZY. It’s been a year since I first read some of Strike’s book and I don’t even know its name! It is MOST LIKELY called Practical MDMA...