Btcboss2022, please help I followed your recipe for synthesis of pmk 28578-16-7 powder to mdp2p and after refluxing oil separation occur but there was still some white cloudy stuff in the oil and as the oil cooled the white cloudy stuff became thicker like soggy cereal and left me with very little oil.
Has anyone seen this happen before?
What did I do wrong btcboss2022?
Can anyone help me with this?
I have attached some photos.
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I never had any issues in more than one year with that process and last week happened me the same with a 15kg powder batch(was the last 15kg of a large batch so same product)
I'm at 99% sure that is about storage and storage time, in my case I stored in a bucket with lid around 6 months.
I isolated that solid that seems a kind of polymerization of the original stuff.
I tested with what product it gets solved:
Water: No
Acid water: No
Alkali water: Practically nothing
DCM: No
Methanol: Practically nothing
Acetone: No
Strange right? It only gets liquid at high temp or with hot water similar to the original stuff so the only 2 options are:
- Unreacted product ( very improbable after hundreds of times of performing the same process also with the same batch, and it must be solved in alkali water too)
- A kind of polymerization due the storage time and conditions.
You can try more time at 90C with the HCL but I guess it wont works.
What I did( don't means that is the solution or that you must do the same)
I added water stir it and later DCM and all in a separator funnel.
You will have the top layer water, middle layer the solid and bottom layer the DCM+PMK oil later later evaporate DCM.
It is a slow separation and I did it 3 times with DCM.
Obviously the yield is much lower than normally but better this than nothing.
I'm sorry couldn't help you more I had the same problem and I tried to fix it as best I know using the common sense and my previous experiences.
Possibly a chemist would help you in a better way.