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Ever wonder how NASA gets so high? This is how they make rocket fuel.

Note:

In this synthesis they achieve BLUE ketone, which is really abnormal.

Pure ketone is light yellow, but may be fluorescent greenish if prepared via Wacker oxidation of safrole /Rhodium

-B W

Drip just started.

Done with dripping

Acid/H2O flood and buchner filter out precipitate

Seperation in seperatory funnel

IR nightvision of seperation of 1st NaOH wash

Second NaOH wash seperation

Proper vacuum distilation rig setup with fractionating column pic 1

Proper vacuum distilation rig setup with fractionating column pic 2
Proper vacuum distilation rig setup with fractionating column pic 3

Ketone distillation temperature

Ketone in recieving flask

Distilled ketone!

N BH3CN R

NaBH3CN reduction and apperatus. Reduction just started.

Reaction through completion pic 1

Reaction through completion pic 2
Reaction through completion pic 3
Reaction through completion pic 4

Removing the MeOH

Acid wash with DCM extraction of unreacted ketone

Aq layer made basic dropping freebase out of solution

Basic Aq layer washed with DCM, removing additional freebase

Freebase in DCM

HCl gassing of freebase in DCM just began!

DCM thick with precipitated HCl salt

HCl salt buchner filtered from DCM

Filter cake

Filter cake after acetone wash

There it is!