So swim is on the tail end of a bridgesii extraction. He has lots of impure mescaline fumarate, prob about 1.5g with another 1.5g on the way in the next week or so. Anyway, swim is tired of washing/recrystallizing his mescaline fumarate, and grows weary of removing excess fumaric acid from his yeilds.
Swim has recently come into some %30 hcl with a clean msds. He knows excess hcl will evap off with the water vs. fumaric witch has to be removed with acetone washes. He was thinking if he can convert his fumarates to hydrochlorides, he could achieve a much greater purity with relative ease.
Thinking on how to go about this, he had a few ideas, like adding hcl to the dissolved fumarates in solution. This would make them hcls, but would not solve the problem of excess fumaric acid. Ultimately he decided against this route.
The next idea he had was to do another a/b on his material, to bind up any excess acid with base. He had no desire to resalt out of dlimo, and had another idea. What if he dried a paste of 1:1 fumarates and lime, then powdered and pulled with acetone?
After pulling and filtering, could it be as easy as adding an appropriate amount of %30 hcl and letting the acetone evaporate? Would this produce nice mescaline hcl with relative little hassle? I don't see any issues since its basically just a mini a/b but who knows.
Any advice would be welcome.
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