When I share thoughts like this, I don’t rely on AI to interpret everything I’m saying....bro... I’ve had experience doing this myself. When I first wrote that thread, I did use AI quite a bit to help spark ideas
mainly because I wasn’t as experienced yet with recrystallization or chemistry.
But the foundation of my thinking was still my own.From what you’ve described, it sounds very similar to what I went through when working with longer-acting esters.
For example, testosterone decanoate behaves more like testosterone undecanoate than cypionate, and even enantate is closer in behavior to those two. This is coming from experience of using these eraws and trying to get some samples
ased on what you’re saying, it sounds like there’s an impurity preventing crystallization and depressing the melting point. If that’s the case, I’d recommend exploring a liquid–liquid extraction followed by salting out.....My reasoning is that if the melting point is being suppressed and the compound isn’t crystallizing properly, it’s likely that the impurities are staying with the main compound instead of separating. Performing a liquid extraction with an immiscible solvent and introducing a mild base to wash the solution can help remove those contaminants....I’ve had to do this in a few worst‑case situations, and it worked well. ....go above where I show the worst case ...You don’t need to process everything at . At this stage, recrystallization likely won’t be effective until the main contaminants are removed first.
Do you know what contaminets your even removing? If it's a color then that almost always points to the ester been naughty and reactive ..now it's giving a ugly color in the mother liquid and also staying with the raws. Assuming you're going to be facing a very similar issue that I experienced with testosterone E.....
The fact your saying it's crashing out and not really acting right tells me something has a lower melting point than your target API.
That makes it even more tricky because no matter what solvent you decide to choose it's going to go right along side your API.....now you need a different method to tackle the problem
Yeah now you got to worry about getting rid of the moisture with the solvents that I mentioned the liquid liquid extraction but you will get closer to your goal of recrystallizing properly
Maybe you will find it's too labor intensive I mean it is pretty f****** annoying. But you did say you tried many solvent systems and you're going to find nothing you choose is going to work.....trust me...