Quickly add the extracts to 25ml of hydrochloric acid, diluted
1 part 36% HCl to 4-5 parts water. Shake the mixture, extract
off the aqueous (lower) portion. This is an acid solution
of
the methcathinone. [you may want to extract a second time
with
HCl to get a slightly higher yield, a 3rd time adds nothing.]
Evaporate the mixture under low to medium heat (preferably
under a vacuum) until it becomes thick. Add acetone and
stir
it a little. if the mixture doesn't become white (crystalline)
right away, it hasn't been evaporated enough. Continue
evaporating and adding acetone until it does. Be careful
not
to burn the thick mixture (adding acetone helps keep the
temperature down).
After getting crystals/precipitate, cover the mixture tightly
and put in a freezer for 15 minutes. Remove from the freezer,
filter the crystals off and wash with a small amount of cold
acetone.
[If the crystals are less than white, you may want to purify
them by boiling and stirring them in acetone again, cooling
the mixture and refiltering as described above.]
The white crystals/powder is methcathinone HCL. I wouldn't
take more than 20mg for a first dose, and I wouldn't take it
if
I had a history of heart disease or stroke in the family, or
if
I had high blood pressure. Really, really habit forming.
Very,
very pleasurable. BE CAREFUL. Don't introduce this
stuff to
kids or sell it or I will personally hunt you down.
NOTES:
This synthesis is very forgiving. Substitutions of potassium
hydroxide for sodium hydroxide, sodium dichromate for potassium
dichromate and similar subsitution will not have an impact.
I
wouldn't substitute anything for the sulfuric acid, however.
HCl is used to make the drug salt because it is so easy to
evaporate the excess off. Any method of making drug salts
you
are familiar with should be satisfactory.
Ether works a little better than naptha, but it's more
dangerous. I stay away from it.
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Message-ID: <051314Z09071994@anon.penet.fi>
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: an42976@anon.penet.fi
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 05:11:24 UTC
Subject: Tips for CAT synthesis
Through experience I have compiled the following tips for ppl wanting
to do the CAT synthesis. It isn't hard, but the posted synthesis
cannot
lead to good results becuase of certain ommisions. I don't know if
these
were omitted deliberately as to stop non-chemists from completing it
or
whether the author of the original article just forgot. In any case,
here
are some things you should be aware of.
1) When dissolving the ephedrine don't use 'as little amount of water
as
possible' as the instructions say. This will lead to a very thick reaction
mixture. When extracting with naphta this thickness will prevent separation
of layers. The naphta will stay in suspension and the naphta that does
separate will not contain high amounts of CAT. This leads to unacceptably
low yields. Use about 10 ml. of water per gram of dissolved ephedrine.
Do
not use tap-water, get de-mineralised water. Trace amounts of minerals
will
inhibit the reaction.
2) Add the sulphuric acid *very slowly*. If you don't, local concentrations
will get too high, causing the ephedrine to break down. Stir well while
adding the H2SO4.
3) This is the most important omission: The whole reaction mixture
has to
be cooled while basifying it with Sodium hydroxyde. The heat developed
during this stage will cause practicaly all the CAT to break down if
you
don't. The best way to cool it is as follows: Place the reaction mixture
in an ice-bath 10 minutes before adding the NaOH. Then, just before
adding
the NaOH, chuck a handfull of salt over the ice (NOT in the reaction
mixture!) This will cause the temperature to drop another couple
of
degrees, ensuring a good cooling.
4) Use a magnetic stirring device troughout the whole procedure.
5) When extracting the CAT from the naphta with the HCl use a 20%
solution in stead of the mentioned 10% (approx.)
6) When evaporating the excess amounts of water (preferably under vacuum)
do not let the temperature exceed 70 degrees C. (approx 150 F.) Again,
the
high temperature would cause the CAT to disintegrate. :-(
If you follow these additional comments, you should be able to have
success!
The anonymous chemist.
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MAKING CAT (METHCATHINONE)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For a more complete description of how cat is made read "Secrets
of Meth-
amphetamine Manufacture" (Third Edition), available from Loompanics
Unlimited,
PO Box 1197 Port Townsend, WA 98368 USA. Eye protection is needed and
this is
done in a well-ventilated area. AT LEAST a year of college chemistry
lab
experience is needed to realize the dangers involved here. This article
is for
information purposes only.
Cat (METHCATHINONE) is made by oxidizing EPHEDRINE, while METHAMPHETAMINE
is
made by reducing EPHEDRINE. Cat is best made by using CHROME in the
+6
oxidation state as the oxidizer. Any of the common hexavalent CHROME
salts
can be used as the oxidizer in this reaction. Some of these are CHROME
TRIOXIDE (CrO3), SODIUM or POTASSIUM CHROMATE (Na2CrO4), and SODIUM
or
POTASSIUM DICHROMATE (Na2Cr2O7). All of these chemicals are very common.
CHROME TRIOXIDE is used in chrome plating.
First the chemist dissolves EPHEDRINE pills containing a total
of 25 grams
of EPHEDRINE HYDROCHLORIDE or EPHEDRINE SULFATE in distilled water.
EPHEDRINE
pills usually contain 25mg each of EPHEDRINE so 1000 pills would be
needed.
Grinding them up isn't necessary. Let them sit overnight or shake the
solution hard for a while. When they're dissolved bring the solution
to a
gentle boil while constantly stirring so none of it burns. As soon
as it
starts boiling remove it from the heat and pour through 3 coffee filters
layered together to filter out the unwanted filler crap. Usually it
is
necessary to hold the filters like a bag with the liquid that didn't
go
through and gently squeeze to get the liquid to go through. The result
is an
almost totally clear liquid which is the EPHEDRINE extract in water.
Throw the
mush left in the filter away.
The EPHEDRINE extract is poured into any convenient glass container.
Next,
75 grams of any of the above mentioned CHROMIUM compounds is added.
They
dissolve easily to form a reddish or orange colored solution. Finally,
CONCENTRATED SULFURIC ACID (it usually comes as 96-98%) is carefully
added.
If CrO3 is being used, 21 ml is enough. If one of the CHROMATES is
being used,
42 ml is needed. These chemicals are thoroughly mixed together and
allowed
to sit for several hours with occasional stirring.
After several hours LYE solution (1 part water, 1 part LYE) is
very slowly
and carefully added dropwise with strong stirring until the solution
is
strongly basic (pH 11 or more). This strong stirring is to make sure
the cat
is converted to the free base.
Next, TOLUENE is used to extract the cat. Usually this is done
with a sep
funnel (separatory funnel, which is a flask with a funnel-shaped bottom
and
a stopcock (valve) on the very bottom. Sep funnels are used for separating
liquids by opening the valve on the bottom and letting the bottom-most
layer
of liquid drain out.) but a regular glass bottle should be fine but
using a
plastic cap wouldn't be good. For safety, the bottle would need to
be "burped"
often anyway to make sure no gasses build up in it. A large eyedropper-type
tool could be used to efficiently remove the cat layer. A couple hundred
ml's
of TOLUENE is added and the container is strongly shaken to make sure
the all
of the cat free base gets into the TOLUENE layer. Shake until it resembles
milk (fine suspended globules of TOLUENE within the water layer). Shake
really
hard, then allow it to separate. Insufficent shaking will result in
poor yield
with some undissolved cat base remaining in the spent sludge layer.
The
TOLUENE layer should be clear to pale yellow in color. The water layer
should
be orange mixed with green. The green may settle out as a heavy sludge.
The
water layer is thrown away and the TOLUENE layer is washed once with
water and
then poured into another container. ("Washed" here means that water
is added
and the mixture shaken again and separated. The cat free base stays
in the
TOLUENE layer because it doesn't dissolve in water. Any remaining
water-soluble impurities are dissolved into the water layer and not
the
TOLUENE layer and thus they're "washed" out.)
The cat free base now must be converted to cat salt (METHCATHINONE
HCL).
Here are 2 methods for doing this.
METHOD 1
~~~~~~~~
Dry HCL gas is made and bubbled through the TOLUENE solution
to turn the cat
free base into cat salt (METHCATHINONE HCL). A bottle is selected for
holding
the gas-producing mixture and a 1-hole stopper will be put in the top
of the
bottle. One end of a J-shaped glass tube (about 1/4 inch diameter)
is pushed
into the stopper. This glass tube will reach from the top of the gas-producing
bottle down into the bottle holding the TOLUENE-cat mixture. It should
reach
the bottom of the mixture. Usually a sep funnel is used to add SULFURIC
ACID
to the gas-producing mixture through a second hole in the stopper to
keep gas
flowing. If one doesn't have access to a sep funnel it should be possible
to
take the stopper out of the gas-producing bottle just long enough to
add a
little SULFURIC ACID when it's needed to keep gas flowing. Place 200
grams of
TABLE SALT into the gas-producing bottle. 35% CONCENTRATED HYDROCHLORIC
ACID
(reagent grade) is added and they are mixed into a paste. The surface
of the
paste should be rough with lots of holes poked into it for good gas
production. About 1 ml of CONCENTRATED (96-98%) SULFURIC ACID is added
to the
paste. This dehydrates the HYDROCHLORIC ACID and produces HYDROGEN
CHLORIDE
GAS (** DO NOT BREATHE THIS GAS! **). This gas goes out of the gas-producing
bottle through the glass tube and bubbles through the TOLUENE-cat solution
turning cat free base into cat salt. The cat salt should appear as
crystals
and after a while the solution should be thick with them. The crystals
are
recovered by pouring through a filter. The crystals are then dried
by
evaporating the TOLUENE with gentle heat or under a vacuum. Voila.
Pure
METHCATHINONE-HCL.
METHOD 2
~~~~~~~~
That was the "ideal" method. The practical method is to dump the base/solvent
solution into a container, add an amount of DILUTE HCl, shake, shake,
shake,
measure pH, if it is greater than 7 (pH above 7 is basic), add more
acid,
shake, shake, shake, and check pH again. Keep it up until the pH is
low,
staying well below 7 (pH below 7 is acidic), then remove the solvent
layer and
keep for reuse. Add BAKING SODA to the water layer a little at a time
until it
stops bubbling when more is added. Check the pH, make sure it is 7
(neutral)
or higher. The water is now evaporated away on non-plastic plates or
pans and
the dried METHCATHINONE HCL can be scraped off with a razor blade.
The
METHCATHINONE HCl has a trace of SODIUM CHLORIDE (TABLE SALT) and an
even
smaller trace of SODIUM BICARBONATE (BAKING SODA). The BAKING SODA
combines
with the excess HCl to become TABLE SALT. This practical method
avoids the
mess of producing HCl gas. HCl is a white gas that burns your
eyes and nose
really badly should you breathe it. It converts upon contact with water
into
HYDROCHLORIC ACID, so if you don't want HYDROCHLORIC ACID in your eyes,
nose,
lungs, don't breathe it!
Small amounts of TABLE SALT and BAKING SODA in the cat will go
unnoticed. The
ideal method can be used if a source of compressed HCl GAS is found.
It is
sold in lab cylinders by chem supply houses and is not watched by the
DEA.
Just stick on a regulator, affix the rubber hose with a glass extension
for
submersion in the solvent, and open the valve to expel the gas through
the
solvent to produce PURE cat HCl.
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SUMMARY
~~~~~~~
Ephedrine is oxidized to produce methcathinone. The methcathinone
is then
converted to the free base for separation from the rest of the unwanted
crap
mixed with it. The free base dissolves in toluene and not in water
whereas the
unwanted crap dissolves in water and not in toluene. Since water and
toluene
separate into 2 layers the toluene layer containing the cat free base
is saved
and the water layer thrown out. The toluene could probably be evaporated
leaving crystals of cat free base which could probably be smoked but
I haven't
heard of anyone smoking it nor have I heard of its effects on the human
body.
The cat free base is converted to cat salt using dilute hydrochloric
acid or
anhydrous HCL gas. Cat salt is soluble in water and not in toluene,
just the
opposite of the free base. Using HCL gas the salt produced has no water
layer
to dissolve in so it crystalizes out. Using dilute HCL the salt leaves
the
toluene layer as before but has a water layer (the water diluting the
HCL) to
dissolve in. This water layer is saved and the water evaporated, leaving
methcathinone-HCL.
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Sources of items:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EPHEDRINE pills- Sadly, GNC (General Nutrition Centers) corporate stores
no
longer carry "Revive" (ephedrine-HCL pills). The franchise stores
are selling
what they have left in stock and will no longer carry the straight
ephedrine
pills. They will only carry the crap with guaifenesin added.
It looks like
mail order will be the only possible source. Anybody ordering
through the
mail will probably have their name and address recorded and possibly
sent to
the DEA.
TOLUENE- Available at most hardware stores. One brand is called "Toluol"
from
Parks. TOLUENE is also called METHYLBENZENE.
LYE- Available at most hardware stores. Even Safeway has it. One brand
is
"Red Devil Lye" which is used to unclog grease clogs in drains.
CONCENTRATED HCL and CONCENTRATED SULFURIC ACID are pretty cheap. When
bought
in 2-liter bottles (reagent grade) they're about $20 each. HCl,
also called
MURIATIC ACID, is available as a concrete cleaner in most lumber
yards. Also
used to adjust pH in swimming pools. H2SO4, aka Battery Electrolyte,
obtainable in quart to 5-gallon size containers from automotive
supply
houses. This is a dilute acid which must be concentrated by pouring
into
large pyrex containers and boiling the water off for many minutes.
It has
reached the point of 98% concentration when the liquid stops
boiling and
starts fuming off with the release of white clouds of gas (SO3,
SULFUR
TRIOXIDE). Bottle while still hot as conc. H2SO4 is hygroscopic
(it sucks
water out of the air and becomes dilute again). DO NOT BREATHE
SO3 GAS! It
eats out your lungs, just as HCl GAS does.
CHROMIUM TRIOXIDE (CHROMIC OXIDE) (CrO3)- Very common oxidizer. Comes
in
powder form. Less than $20 for 100 grams. Since it can be recycled,
someone
would never have to purchase large quantities of it. Enough to
use as a
reagent and a supply to supplement the losses incured during
use would be
enough.
Glass tubing- About $2 per tube (1/4 inch) at chemistry supply outlets.
Bent
into different forms slowly and carefully while heating with
blow torch.
Glass tubing also used in salt water aquariums. Also for
neon signs. Many
sources for glass tubing from veterinary to dairy, from industrial
to hobby.
Easy to find if you know how to look.
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CREDITS
~~~~~~~
"Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture" by Uncle Fester was used as
a
reference. Information about it is in the beginning of this article.
Technical assistance was provided by Steve J. Quest.
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Message-ID: <124353Z31051995@anon.penet.fi>
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: an267556@anon.penet.fi
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 12:37:03 UTC
Subject: CAT synth help
I'm looking for some help with the cat synth posted on hyperreal.
I followed the cat procedure on hyperreal and when I bubbled hcl through
the mix the first time I got white paste that on further drying on
a glass plate
turned to a yellow orange oil. Still works great but not as pretty.
I think it is
the heat. The second and third attempt at bubbling hcl
through the mix all I got was a milky naptha(I'm using naptha instead
of
acetone)
Precipitating the cat has been more succesful for me but the mix never
gets
cloudy. I just continue washing out with naptha until I dry it.
Im no chemist but I follow direction well. However besides the
above My yeild is way down.
The first few times I used 1000 30mg
pseudoephedrine HCL pills and only ended up with about 3.5 grams of
cat.
Yeild has gotten worse with each attempt.
Anyone who has tried this care to critique my methods
1. 1000 pseudoephedrine HCL pills (30mg) disolved in 300ml water. Bring
to a
boil,and let settle. Filter off some of the water leaving paste behind.
2. Add more water and repeat step 1. Filter off top and add to already
filtered material until the paste has no bitter taste to it..
I end up with about 800ml of water. I don't let the temp pass 50c so
I don't really
boil the mix.
2.Add 20 grams potassium dichromate. stirring constantly.
This was hard to come by and unless I mail order it looks like I won't
be able to get
any more of this. Someone mentioned photo supply but several calls
in the bostonarea left me wondering if it is used for photography at all.
None of the people
I talked to had it on thier list.
3.Slowly add concentrated sulfuric acid.
One method calls for 3ml per gram pseudoephedrine HCL (90ml)
another method says 42ml
I have tried both.
I add this slow enough to keep the mix temp below 50C.
4.leave this for several hours constantly stirring. It gets very hot
from
the reaction.
5.Put container in ice bath and while stirring slowly add lye until
strongly
basic (ph 11) stir this for 1 hour.
6.add naptha to the mixture in the sep funnel
and shake until my arms hurt ~2 minutes. Let settle and syphon
off naptha.
repeat 4 times.
7.Put naptha in a sep funnel with 200 ml water and shake. Let settle
and pour off water.
8. bubble hcl gas through the naptha and filter crystals.
I make my own gas.
00g salt +30%hcl in a wide bottom flask. Slowly drip sulfuric acid
into mix.
If i use muriatic acid for this I get many bubbles in the mix that
would eventually bubble into naptha/cat mix if not careful.
reagent grade hcl (harder to get) doesn't do this?
The first time I did the naptha clouded up and then crystals began
to appear
Quite beautiful to watch. I used my vacuum settup to separate crystals
and then
set crystals on glass plate to dry. They changed from white paste to
yellow/amber in color and seemed to evaporate to less than half a gram.
My second and third attempt was even less encouraging. All I got was
milky
colored naptha with no precipate. That was another reason I thought
heat was
destroying the cat but last night keeping the to 50c or below all I
got was
a cloudy mix and after several minutes of bubbling hcl gas through
it
there was no precipitate. Very frustrating.
Early attempts at this step I put the naptha/cat mix in a sep funnel,
added 30%hcl and shook till my arms hurt. Pour off the water/hcl and
evaporate under low heat.The instructions said to wait until it got
milky,
put in freezer for 15 minutes, then filter off crystals and wash with
naptha.
This was very difficult and time consuming. The mix never got milky
and after
eventualy evaporating all the liquid I ended up with a dark colored
paste
that would stay hard under heat but as soon as I removed it it became
a
sticky paste again. From what I have read, (I have noone to discuss
this
with) sulfuric acid will absorb the moisture in the air so I thought
prehaps there was still hcl in the mix and it was absorbing moisture
from the air. I'm only guessing. I would have thought the hcl would
have
evaporated with the water/naptha mix leaving only the cat.
I have talked to two other people on the net but neither do more than
ask
questions or agree with my methods. I must be missing something as
my
yeild is so low and my results have been poor.
Also the cat high is really great. I don't know how much I do.
two small lines every so often until I start to buzz. When I do hit
it though
it is a nice buzz. The cat did not give me a rush. I felt powerful,
strong, euphoric
over the beauty of life. My mind could focus very well and seemed to
be
able to connect abstract thought into coherent patterns. I am learning
the
guitar in my spare time and under the influence of the cat I wrote
several
songs. Sitting playing my guitar a melody would just leap from my fingers
and the words would pour out as if I were reading it from a script.
Nothing
profound but enjoyable emotional music pouring out of me faster than
I could write it down... or was that the mushrooms Im growing...
Too much and my heart hits the hyway at well over 100bpm. Not to pleasant.
So the million dollar questions is what am I doing wrong?