Thank you very very much. That brings light. So mescaline chloride is an improper term? I'm assuming this is true because "chloride" ignores the "H" in "HCl." Shows how little of chemistry I actually understand. I had to wikipedia "conjugate acid."
That clears up so much, but brings up some more questions. I hope it's a good question and not a list of ignorant ones, like before
Why is ammonium chloride used to "precipitate" out morphine. Why is ammonium chloride preferred, over other chemicals? Is this because it is a "conjugate acid," or simply because it lowers the pH of solutions slightly? Is it cheap and easy to obtain, maybe as fertilizer? Could HCl acid be used to lower the pH, and precipitate morphine chloride? Is HCl only added later, to avoid impurites? Why isn't HCl used to lower the pH?
I'm assuming if HCl is added to the calcium morphenate solution, the pH would drop too quickly. Not all of the morphine and codeine would form a salt with the HCl. This would leave you with morphine as the freebase and as the HCl salt. In other words, you couldn't add enough acid to do all the salting, without lowering the pH well below 8.
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