TheBlindGenius (Hive Bee)
07-20-02 07:56
No 335070
      would this work? hcl/dcm  Bookmark   

if one were to gas regular, acs methylene chloride with hcl, without drying the gas with a drying tube, etc. could one then use anhydrous sodium sulfate to dry the resulting hcl in dcm solution? also, how could one know when the solution was saturated with gas.  is there a precise way to tell?  would ph work the same as an aqueous solution?
 
 
 
 
    yellium
(Hive Addict)
07-20-02 08:18
No 335076
      You can't gas DCM. HCl is too polar to dissolve ...  Bookmark   

You can't gas DCM. HCl is too polar to dissolve in DCM.

You can gas ether and IPA.
 
 
 
 
    cheeseboy
(I'm not Cheesie)
07-20-02 14:00
No 335177
      ya?  Bookmark   

alcohols are gassable for shit like MeAM gas, but I thought toluene/xylene could hold HCl gas as well?

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    terbium
(Old P2P Cook)
07-20-02 17:45
No 335291
      Toluene doesn't hold much HCl  Bookmark   

but I thought toluene/xylene could hold HCl gas as well
I don't think that toluene will hold much if any HCl. I think that this is one reason people often obtain poor results when gassing a dilute solution of MDMA in toluene.
 
 
 
 
    Antibody2
(Bee without a Title)
07-20-02 18:53
No 335324
      I think that this is one reason people often ...  Bookmark   

I think that this is one reason people often obtain poor results  when gassing a dilute solution of MDMA in toluene. it may not dissolve alot of HCl, but the MDMA freebase will most certainly react with HCl in toluene in near quantitative yeilds.
 
 
 
 
    endo1
(Newbee)
07-20-02 20:15
No 335346
      SW seconds that. The best results he ever had ...  Bookmark   

SW seconds that. The best results he ever had crystalizing were from gassing toly.
 
 
 
 
    goiterjoe
(Title on BackOrder)
07-21-02 02:21
No 335427
      have you ever tried wet toluene?  Bookmark   

Anhydrous xylene don't hold hardly any HCl, but wet xylene will hold a considerable amount of HCl.  The NP will turn a dark red upon gassing.  I imaging toluene will behave in a very similar manner. 

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    hest
(Hive Addict)
07-21-02 03:23
No 335439
      DCM  Bookmark   

And most HCl salt is soluble into DCM so the anser is no DCM is not a good gasing solvent.
use ether or alcohol (methyl/ethyl/isopropyl.. ect.)
 
 
 
 
    TheBlindGenius
(Hive Bee)
07-21-02 19:13
No 335607
      huh?  Bookmark   

didn't str*** say dcm was the best solvent for gassing mda?  so what your saying must mean that hcl won't dissolve in dcm, but bubbling mda/dcm with hcl will work? hmm.... so would this work? take freebase dissolved in dcm and mix with appropriate amount of hcl sol'n (in other solvent that is miscible w/dcm)? .500 N HCl solutions are available from chem suppliers in IPA and MeOH, swim thinks.  ~18 g HCl/1000mL solvent.
 
 
 
 
    Rhodium
(Chief Bee)
07-21-02 19:42
No 335614
      Yes, he said so, but referring to MDA.  Bookmark   

Yes, he said so, but referring to MDA.HCl, where it works satisfactorily. Not so with MDMA.
 
 
 
 
    tiresias3
(Stranger)
07-23-02 08:50
No 336148
      TheBlindGenius,  Bookmark   

Dissolve your freebase in three times its volume of acetone, adjust pH to 4 with muriatic acid and leave it in the freezer overnight.  I would cite the post from whence that information came, but I can't remember who said it, and BTW, Tiresias was the blind SEER, not the blind genius.  Being a genius doesn't hurt, though.

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    TheBlindGenius
(Hive Bee)
07-24-02 15:04
No 336691
      about drying  Bookmark   

ok, so say swim takes anhydrous ipa or meoh and gasses them with HCl (no MD(M)A in there) without using a drying tube or drying setup.  could swim then dry the solution with anhydrous sodium sulfate or mag. sulfate? or would the salt react with the HCl or otherwise would this not be feasible?  if it worked, it would make the setup a bit simpler, no? no fractionating column filled with cacl2, no risk of pushing cacl2 into the solution, less joints to worry about, etc.