Mondeva
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MSK has good points, and it's not really possible to purify unknown impurities in a targeted way... but if you do, apply a solvent that 3-MeO is insoluble in and just hope that your impurities do dissolve. For the HCl salt of course that would be ether, hexane and perhaps acetone if very cold works as well (assuming properties are similar to those of PCP). I suppose also napththa instead of plain hexane.
More sophisticated ways of purification require knowing the properties by which you separate. But there's always recrystallization of course.
But as argued, you might be basing the idea of impurity on a false premise.
Thanks Solipsis, MSK and the others.
The fact is that I noticed a big diference after washing that batch of 3-Meo-PCP (though I lost 80% of it becuse of its unexpected solubility in acetone). It is not exactly about duration, but more about avoiding over-stimulation and excess of mania, so I could sleep better the same day. But I really don't know what the impurities were. The idea of washing it came after some discussion in a spanish forum about the possible impurities in the synthesis of this kind of substances. Someone pointed that a common impurity was active in micro-grams and it was responsible of excess stimulation and mania. If I remember well, it was speculated to have similar structure to MDVP and similar substances.
I also did the acetone wash with O-PCE with even more awesome results, converting the substance from shit to a jewel, and without much loss of material this time.
Finally, I also did an acetone wash with DCK, but in this case I didn't notice any diference.
So my renewed interest in this issue is beacuse I am waiting for a new order of 3-Meo-PCP and maybe I decide to wash it again. In this case maybe I will follow Solipsis advice of using cold acetone... at least with part of it to minimize the loss.