This strikes me as shady... but I hope you get the anwsers you need if you're coming from a pure place.
glass wont hold compression well. u need to rig up an envirnmental box with other materials. usually a fiberglass box, say an extra thick speaker box, and cover the wholes with clear fiberglass and then compress. Maybe rig up a compressor motor from a little compressor (but backwards so it pumps out). safety first, make it like 1/4 inch thinck all around and seal with alot of cocking maybe. or u could by one from the government.
Hmmm I dont understand what your saying? Do you have a sketch or picture? So I would be hooking up the box to the glassware and using a rubber like seal to keep compression? Sorry but I dont understand ANYTHING about vacumes. I understand the synthesis fine, and for me to extract the element for distillation I would be boiling off the element with the lower boiling point and then re condensing it into another flask. What would I do if I needed to extract an element from a compound but the elements in the compound had a lower boiling point than the element that I needed to extract? Sorry Im still really new to this, and yes I have enrolled in a College Organic Chemistry corse.
Glassware? Not really. But you can usually get a usable vacuum from a cheap water aspirator. A salvaged compressor from a refrigerator or air conditioner also makes a pretty decent vacuum pump. Just remember to keep it full of oil to prevent burning it up! In exactly what procedure? What are you trying to separate from what? Are you talking about the separation of safrole from essential oils, or the separation of MDP-2-P from your reaction mix? Or something else? Typically, vacuum distillation is used when distillation at atmospheric pressure would require temperatures above the decomposition point of the substance being distilled. The higher the vacuum, the lower the boiling points become. Substances that decompose at or below their boiling point must be distilled under vacuum. Sure. Isomerize safrole using KOH or similar strong base.... No shit? Great, so exactly how many people do you have involved in this project? Every one of them is a bust waiting to happen, especially somebody stupid enough to try buying isosafrole without an airtight alibi! All it takes is ONE of them rolling over on you to get YOUR ass busted... Ditch the glassware and chems, and keep a REALLY low profile for the next few years.
You have to do some research. You wanna attempt a MDMA synth but you dont know how to synthesize Isosafrole. That is bad. Search for a Rhodium mirror on the web. And do some research. If you wanna distillate your Safrole oil try SteamDistillation.
Steam distillation will work great for getting the essential oil out of sassafras root bark or other plant material, but if you want to separate the safrole from the other compounds in an essential oil, you are going to need fractional vacuum distillation.
You are absolutely right. Sometimes I just write stuff without thinking lioke i'm in a hurry or something. Sorry
ROFLAMO!!! You are SO screwed! And on top of those brilliant tactics, posting a yahoo email address on a public DRUG CHEMISTRY forum? You think Yahoo of all people won't hand your IP over to the authorities in a second? Attempting to purchase isosafrole is the stupidest thing I have heard in years. And I'm sure all your friends are bragging to their friends about knowing an "XTC COOK". I don't care if they are all your best friends, trust no one when you're trying to commit a class A or AA felony! Not quite buddy, you're the kid that downloaded a synthesis off the internet and thinks he knows what he's doing. That has never heard of an aspirator. I'm not trying to be a dick, listen to ellis. Ditch the chems and glass and keep a low profile for the next 20 years or so, if you're not being watched now the DEA is having an off day and you will be VERY soon. Prison sucks.
If that kid is for real, and he actually does whip up his own special batch of half assed MDMA, he'll more than likely kill somebody with it.
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