Had an excellent time doing a BLAB and got excellent results

After 2 acetone washes I had 11 grams of DMT-fumarate. After reading everything I could find on the nexus about such matters, I decided to do a final cleaning with water. I dissolved the 11 grams in 132 ml of water (this left virtually nothing; I assumed the acetone washes had gotten the excess fumaric acid already).

This was allowed to evaporate very slowly to encourage big crystal growth.

So here's the problem- no crystals! Actually all I have now is a puddle of dark amber goo. I can proably smear it around and get something waxy, but I really want DMT salt crystals for long term storage.

Can the goo be cleaned or purified somehow? The DMT-fumarate that I started with was dry and crumbly, but it seemed like it was a salt, so I'm not really sure what happened. The color was not very red either. Very odd.

Thanks for any help or advice!

Pokey the Questionable Chemist

Usually working the goo around tends to solidify it into hard rocks, but it sounds to SWIM like SWIY just still has to evaporate more water.

Cool!
Thanks amor_fati.

I'll keep you posted.

Did I just make a pun?

Pokey

So all I needed was a little patience!

amor_fati was absolutely correct. I ended up with 10.38 grams of well washed DMT-fumarate.

I am still a little surprised at how different it looks now, compared to before the water wash. Since I had already washed most of the excess fumaric acid away with acetone, it seemed like what I had at the end of the water wash process would be just about exactly what I had at the beginning.

The color was definitely more red/brown. It was yellow/brown before.

I also expected to see crystals forming in the water as it evaporated (because thats what the tek said), but there were none. Even at the end it was just a thickening puddle of goo.

The end result, however, is quite beautiful even with no crystals! It seems very stable, which was the goal.

Thanks for your advice amor-fati, much appreciated!

Pokey the Grateful