TEK - Extracting Cocaine HCL from Coca Tea/Leaves Question

[maYHeM-2009]

Is the ether step absoloutely vital in this process, or could this be substituted for anhydrouse acetone if ether wasnt available?

maYHeM-2009 added 54 Minutes and 41 Seconds later...

The relevant part of the TEK process that my pet octopus is reading, its a pretty well known .pdf floating around the place, some people that arnt you might know about it:

The Cocaine freebase starts precipitating and after about 20-30 minutes the solution was filtered. A
lot of material was also stuck on the stirring rod and on the beaker.

Everything was let dry overnight and some more drying was performed the morning after in the
oven.

The resulting material was dissolved in ~100-150ml of ether in the same container used the day

before (the one with a lot stuck on the sides) and most of it dissolved

240ml of acetone were dried with anhydrous potassium carbonate and an equimolar quantity of HCl
(6.58ml) was calculated and added to it. The calculation was done considering that only 230ml were
going to be used.

The freebase was dissolved in 240ml of ether and the acetone/HCl solution was added with stirring
the beaker was capped with cling film to prevent solvents from evaporation. After ~30 minutes
some more stirring was performed and the some more acetone/HCl was added drop wise until there

was no more visible reaction