Chloroform Synthesis: The Idiots Guide

Simple & Fast household item method

By
Dr. Dark Breed

Welcome to the easiest and quickest method of synthesizing

Chloroform in your own home with completely freely available
household items that can be bought at the supermarket,
hardware store or pharmacy!

NOTICE: Chloroform is highly flammable so NEVER use it

around any live fire or high temperature, and store it cold and
dark!

DISCLAIMER: The author takes NO responsibility of whatever

action is done by the reader using any information found here
within. For informational purposes ONLY.

THE EQUIPMENT FOR THE SYNTHESIS:

1 – A normal glass

2 – A glass bottle

3 – Small dark bottle with eyedropper

4 – Acetone 99.9%

5 – Digital scale with beaker

6 – Bleach 5% Sodium Hypochlorite (Clorox is one brand that
can be used)

7– Muriatic Acid 36%

THE SYNTHESIS:

For each 1 gram of Acetone use 142 grams of Bleach (5%

Sodium Hypochlorite).

In this synthesis 2 grams of Acetone will be used, and thus 2

times the bleach is needed, meaning a total of 284g Bleach.

If you have the 10% Sodium Hypochlorite solution of Bleach

you just have to half the amount (For each 1 gram of Acetone,
71 grams of Bleach with 10% S. Hypochlorite).

So here is what you do:

Measure up what you need with the digital scale. In this case,
284g bleach is measured up and then added to the glass
bottle. Now measure up 2 grams of Acetone and add to the
bottle with the bleach. A reaction will start, it will bubble a bit
and give off some gasses, and it will become somewhat warm.
With these amounts it will not be boiling hot though, just
pretty warm but not so warm that you will not be able to hold
the bottle.

Now shake the bottle around a bit to stir up the solution and
get it mixed so the reaction will start properly. The solution
will become white as in the picture above. Then simply let it
sit for 10 minutes. Drip in a drop or two of the Muriatic Acid
to speed up the process if you have problems getting the
acetone to oxidize. After 10 minutes, shake the bottle around
some more. You will feel that it has become somewhat
warmer but still not too hot to worry about. Let it sit for 15 to
30 minutes more.

At this point you should notice a clear bubble, or several

smaller bubbles that may be so small that they look like white
powder, settled at the bottom of the bottle. This is the
Chloroform liquid. Tilt the bottle to the side and hold it still
and the Chloroform will gather as a clear liquid bottom layer
almost like oil in water, as seen on the photo below. In some
cases it look more like a bunch of very tiny bubbles, so tiny
that it may look like white powder as mentioned above. This
is okay and the process is still good.

ABOVE:

1 – The bleach solution as a top layer in the bottle

2 – The Chloroform settled at the bottom of the bottle as a

clear solution

As you can see, the bottle used is narrowed in towards the

bottom and then wider again, which is perfect as you now
have to pour out as much of the top layer of bleach you can
without pouring out the Chloroform. With a bottle as the one
above, the Chloroform will sink down into the wider bottom
part of the bottle when it is slowly positioned sideways to
pour out the upper bleach layer. Pour at as much you can
without spilling any Chloroform out, and do not worry if some
of the top bleach layer will be left, in fact you should leave a
little of this left to avoid spilling out any of the Chloroform.

The next step now is to pour the reduced solution over in the
glass. You will notice the same thing as in the bottle, a top
layer of bleach, and a clear or bubblish layer of Chloroform at
the bottom. Let it settle for a moment before continuing.

See the photo below for an example on how this should look.

ABOVE:

1 – Upper layer of remaining bleach

2 – Bottom layer of Chloroform

At this point you just need to take the eyedropper, stick it

down into the bottom of the glass into the Chloroform
solution, and start sucking up the Chloroform with the
eyedropper.
A small amount of the bleach solution may come up with it,
but this will be easy to discard as the Chloroform settles in
the bottom of the eyedropper as well, and all you have to do
is drip the Chloroform into the brown glass bottle until only
the bleach is left in the eyedropper, if any was present in the
first place, then drip the bleach out of the eyedropper into
your sink and discard it.

See photo below for example on eyedropper with Chloroform

and Bleach layer.

ABOVE:

1 – Upper bleach layer

2 – Bottom Chloroform layer

 Continue this extraction process with the eyedropper until
you have collected all the Chloroform into your brown glass
bottle. As you can see, the glass bottle used here already
contains a cap with eyedropper which is perfect for this
purpose.

Once you are done, you should have something looking like
this:

Congratulations, you now have relatively pure Chloroform

ready.

SOME FINAL NOTES:

You can also do a Chloroform synthesis using Isopropyl

Alcohol instead of Acetone. In this case, use 10 ml of
Isopropyl Alcohol (high grade recommended, 99%, but 70% or
higher works fine too) for each 500 ml of Bleach (5% Sodium
Hypochlorite). That would be in grams 10 grams of Isopropyl
Alcohol with 500 grams Bleach.

This route takes a bit more time though, add a couple ml (1-
3ml) of Muriatic acid to speed up the process, and follow
same procedures as above with the Acetone, but you will
have to wait up to 3 hours or so for the Chloroform to have
properly formed and settled at the bottom.

REMEMBER TO DO ALL OF THIS SYNTHESIS IN A WELL

VENTILATED AREA! TOXIC GASSES ARE PRODUCED DURING
THE PROCESS AND THE SUBSTANCES USED ARE ALSO HIGHLY
FLAMMABLE SO AVOID ANY LIVE FIRE – DO NOT SMOKE WHILE
DOING THIS! – AND AVOID HIGH TEMPERATURES.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY ANY

INFORMATION PRESENTED HERE! STUDY AND KNOW EVERY
CHEMICAL USED BEFORE EVEN STARTING! DO SOME READING
UP AND EDUCATE YOURSELF!

Best of Luck and hope this was useful for someone.

-Dr Dark Breed