Not being a prick your being an idiot, what drug are you trying to free base?
Freebase or
free base refers to the pure
basic form of an
amine, as opposed to its
salt form. The amine is usually an
alkaloid natural product.
Free base is commonly used in
chemistry and
pharmaceuticals to describe the unprotonated amine form of a compound.
Most alkaloids are unstable in their pure form and are often stored as salts. The salts usually exhibit greater water solubility. Common counterions include
chloride,
bromide,
acetate and
oxalate. Because of the ubiquity of chloride salts, formed from the reaction of the amine with
hydrochloric acid, these amine derivatives are known as the
hydrochlorides. For example, compare the free base
hydroxylamine (NH2OH) with
hydroxylamine hydrochloride (NH3OH+ Cl-).
The term "freebasing" refers to a method of
deprotonating the common
hydrochloride salt form of
cocaine sold as a street drug to prepare it for smoking. The process can also remove inactive
adulterants. The free base is preferred for smoking because the evaporation point of the free base is further apart from the burning point compared to the hydrochloride salt, making the salt form more prone to destruction by
pyrolysis. Some of the active drug is lost in the deprotonation process. Freebasing became popular in the
United States during the 1980s, mainly due to the fear of diseases such as
HIV and
viral hepatitis, since users did not have to share
hypodermic needles.
[1]
[edit] References
edit: nvm