Making methylamine HCl but for legal reasons

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Seeing the garage doors in the glassware really brings it all together.

that 'distillation' is one of the undergrad moments of all time

27% yield is good without a proper schlenk line setup. In the world of inorganic synthesis thats a solid yield. All that smoke and fog is your hygroscopic reagents reacting with water lowering your yield. Nice work!

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this reminds me of taking chem in school. at the end of the year i realized my chem professor had taught the entire class about making meth. every unit focused around one of the steps of production for meth, but was focused on teaching the chemistry. he never acknowledged it and just laughed when i asked him about it later

Instead of using a funnel in the HCl try using a small glass tube. Bubbles would be smaller and provide more surface area for the gas to react.

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when smelling something you should wave the smell over to you, that way if it knocks you out you don't fall on the lab gear. also you lower the amount that gets to you so the cancer probability is less. it was good that you did not hold the bottle.

Bro really pushing it with the government

I used to work at chemical plant as an apprentice and I've never been more fascinated in my entire life! I was lucky to work up from a cleaner in just about 7 months, I'm not an idiot and I was obviously interested so they gave me a chance. I was lucky to work in a plant that was a "problem solver" so we there were only a few products that we did over repeatedly, one was refining oil for a Chinese company that was an anti-knocking compound. It was £1000/Ltr so we had to be careful. I didn't do any additions/reactions at that point, just dis/charging filters and drying in all sorts of impellor dryers and a kind of spin dryer. I loved it but my back gave out so had to quit. I really miss it, and could've punched myself for not doing better at school.

Always love seeing these uploads!

It's way better to use Tin powder instead of Tin pellets for that reaction.

Very well put together very enjoyable to watch thank you

Excellent production, Bravo Vince!

SWIM says that the best way to get a good absorption with the "distillation" here is to use an aquarium bubbler stone, one of the big long ones, at the bottom of a jar mostly full of glass marbles or those weird ornamental glass pebbles they sell at craft stores. That breaks everything up into super small bubbles, generates plenty of turbulence, and slows the bubbles down enough to SIGNIFICANTLY increase yield. When SWIM was concentrating ammonia for making touch powder, that worked really well.

My dog, Jessie, woke up and walked over to me at the beginning of your video. She hasn't done that since I was watching the Bald Science Man show. 😂

The easiest reaction is with formaldehyde combined with ammonium chloride and reflux it for a while. Make sure the ammonium chloride is in 2x molar excess and you will get nearly pure methylamine as your product with some ammonium chloride that will crystalize out of the concentrated methylamine. If you want dimethylamine instead simply use a 2:1 molar ratio of formaldehyde to ammonium chloride.