Cocaine Question about A/B extraction (cocaine) and possible fixes

[LetsBelieveIn]

I have performed an A/B extraction after creating freebase from an acetone washed product almost to the T and was left with a flaky, extremely light, less dense powder with a very distinct smell that does not smell like cocaine. Yes it is real, performing chemical testing and washing proved this.

Can anyone tell me if this is what it should look like and what the possible smell is. To describe the smell, actually I can't. It's very pungent and not attractive. Could the muriatic acid cause this smell? The left is the original and the right is the extraction.

This is my first time and I wouldn't want anyone to use something that seemed abnormal. Any suggestions or insight?

 

[LetsBelieveIn]

Excuse me, the picture was turned, the bottoms is the initial washed product but not freebased and extracted. and I'm working on figuring out how to have a smaller picture.

 

[amapola]

I'm a little confused if you are expecting your end product to be freebase or a salt. What did you do/want?

From your question it seems like you wanted freebase but I would think the HCl would only be for making a salt.

 

[LetsBelieveIn]

I had turned it into a freebase to remove more impurities using a non heated method of freebasing, aka the TEK from le junk. I then turned it back into hcl using ethanol and m.acid and acetone and want snort-able powder. The major question i have is the consistency is much different and so is the smell than anything I've smelled before.

 

[sekio]

Recrystallize it.

Ideally cocaine should be glistening flakes that have no smell at all.

 

[LetsBelieveIn]

Using what method?

 

[LetsBelieveIn]

I washed it with acetone and no disolving leading me to think it's legit. But I bumped a tiny bit and it hurt like hell. What could have possible happened?

 

[amapola]

The impurities are caught up in the crystal structure. You need to dissolve it and recrystallize it like sekio said and since the impurities are in the minority there will be smaller levels in the new crystals than the solution. I'm not sure where you went wrong but if you repeat all your steps maybe I can shed some light.

edit:

Using what method?

Sorry I didn't realize you don't understand how to do this. Ummm I don't have much experience with cocaine but from what I've read it is soluble in water and insoluble in acetone. So if this is true mix your coke into just enough water to have it fully dissolve. Then slowly add acetone to the solution until the coke fully precipitates out. Filter and obtain product. Seems like it should work eh.

 

[sekio]

HCl is a gas @ STP, it should evaporate off with the alcohol...

 

[THC2LSD]

Recrystallize it.

How? I've often heard of extracting with ethanol or chloroform, filtering and drying as "recrystallizing", but that's just an extraction. A real recrystallization is saturating a solvent and precipitating it with an anti-solvent and/or cooling. I've read of recrystallizing coke hcl from anhydrous ethanol/ether and chloroform/ether. The base is often recrystallize from ethanol, petroleum ether, or (best) from acetone/benzene. I've never heard of anyone, except professional chemists, do a real recrystallization.Albert Niemann describe pure coke as "colourless transparent prisms." Imagine that, shards of pure cocaine!

Ideally cocaine should be glistening flakes that have no smell at all.

QFT. Pure coke has NO SMELL, maybe of methyl benzonate from trace hydrolysis. The smell often associated with coke is from a rushed drying during bricking or an artifact of re-rocking to trick you into thinking it's straight off the brick.

 

[jammon]

HCl is a gas @ STP, it should evaporate off with the alcohol...

no dude, acid sticks to the crystals.. wash it off with Acetone. If you over acidified the coke it won't be easy to remove it with a quick acetone wash...
First you do a good acetone wash of 2 gr with 100 ml, filter and dry
then freebase well and wash the base in 100 ml of warm water
turn back to salt.