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Phenethylamines How can I purify 2C-B at home?

Can a mod please clean up

Sansert 's spam?​


A lot of the responses have been really great and it would be nice to keep the thread clean.
I agree, I do like clean threads too. I can delete the video's but not sure there is a rule break, yet but now that we asked.....going forward we should leave out the synth talk and stay on topic, this way nobody reports this thread again and makes work. I know I appreciate it.
 
I thought they only listed active compounds, IIRC 1 of the issues with them is that the can't report on strength for example, just primary active compound and secondaries which I assume is really just looking at the biggest peak in the GCMS, so even if the only active compound were 2C-B but the pill is 95% filler, then you've got a shit underdosed pill. Seems underdosing is on 2c-b pills is pretty common these days.

HCI for me, though it's harder to get hold of in the UK
20% grade HCl is off shelf in 3M muriatic or pool grade 10M

HCl can be synthesized via chloro alkprocess via cell membrane, and a mini reactor
here its a mini industrial lab https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=156152

this vid proves a pH 2 acidic solution can be reached (at 2mins in) it just doesnt really discuss the final molarity - im assuming here in 250mL beakers that lil but dissolved NaCl to be below 1
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reactor heat energy and backyard way will look like
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the above is dangerous af btw

swimming pool stuff way:
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sulfuric acid (zep) and salt way:
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Assuming you get HCl and need distill and concentrate to azeoptropic point 20%ish
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Process should be something like this in theory (assuming car battery as energy source):
1. Electrolyte Preparation: Dissolve 360g NaCl in 1L distilled water to create a near-saturated brine solution.
2. Cell Setup: Fill two glass beakers with the solution, maintaining headspace for gas accumulation.
3. Salt Bridge: Connect the beakers with a saturated salt bridge to complete the ionic circuit while minimizing direct mixing of products.
4. Electrode Placement: Submerge inert graphite rods in each beaker.
5. Circuit Wiring: Wire the electrodes to the 12V power source in series with an inline 3A–5A fuse and a #1156 automotive bulb acting as a ballast resistor to limit current.
6. Electrolysis: Power the circuit and monitor for hydrogen evolution at the cathode and chlorine evolution at the anode.
7. HOCl Conversion: Expose the resulting hypochlorous acid HOCl solution to UV light or sunlight for a week to facilitate photolytic degradation into hydrochloric HCl and oxygen O
8. Distillation Limit: Concentrate the solution via controlled evaporation only up to the azeotropic limit (~20% / 6M), recognizing that further concentration by simple boiling is not possible.

and im not sure the ballast light will keep the 12V from instantly vaporizing everything short circuit style just an idea (prob approx 16-24 hrs according to guesstimated math)
 
I agree, I do like clean threads too. I can delete the video's but not sure there is a rule break, yet but now that we asked.....going forward we should leave out the synth talk and stay on topic, this way nobody reports this thread again and makes work. I know I appreciate it.
My bad. Was mainly commenting on the elegance of the mechanism, definitely not a how to but I'll snip that part anyway.
Was tempted to delete every comment I made because clearly, according to chatGPT and JMC an a/b will work best.


No. 2C-B is made from 2C-H by bromination. Contamination with 2C-H means the conversion was not full and the end product not cleaned up enough (distillation of freebase [basically nobody does this], crystallisation [regrettably, basically nobody does this on the market]).
This is all correct.
So is this bromine process the way to strip the useless 2C-H from a pile of 2C-B?
@xdrc is correct. If you tried to brominate the miniscule amount of 2C-H that is an impurity in a sample of 2C-B, you'd likely dibrominate the 2C-B to make an entirely new compound that is called 2C-DB (which honestly looks interesting).

While I don't have actual data, I do think that 2C-H has a higher solubility in acetone/isopropyl. So doing a recrystallization (or a wash as I've recommended for the novice at home) is probably the best as the 2C-H is more likely to stay in solution or dissolve in the first place.
 
My bad. Was mainly commenting on the elegance of the mechanism, definitely not a how to but I'll snip that part anyway.
Was tempted to delete every comment I made because clearly, according to chatGPT and JMC an a/b will work best.
No worries Didgital, I know you and @xdrc know more of the technical talk. When separating the extraction talk (which is allowed) from synth talk (which is not allowed) I have to count on you all. It gets fuzzy for me.
 
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