Sorry to bump this from the grave, but I have some q's, particularly for LC/sekio/the people what actually learned chemistry in a school and not off cereal boxes. Is there a reason to prefer carbonates to hydroxides for the reduction to the base? Is there some way that a strong base could react with the methoxetamine? Secondly, my initial thought was that acetone would be a good solvent, cheap, available, certainly moreso than THF or diethyl ether to the hobbyist, volatile, can be dried easily with Epsom salts or similar... have I missed something here?
is the freebase more caustic than the HCL? is it more caustic than hydrochloric acid?
is mxe HCL more stable to heat than MXE freebase?
which 'version' of mxe was first, which was 2nd and which was 3rd and
most importantly.
WHY.
The base is... basic, surprise surprise, so yeah, more caustic than the salt, and no, not as caustic as HCl (a whiff of conc. hydrochloric acid will confirm that for you!). Yeah, the salt will be more stable, as well as more solid, less corrosive, less volatile, all round easier to store, move and use. As with all drugs, the freebase will be formed in a solution, and then "salted out" with an acid. Yeah, there are many potential acids one could use, to form many different salts, but unless there's a reason not to use hydrochloric (as there is with amphetamine, which is sold as the sulfate), hydrochloric is the go-to counterion of choice.