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    This document provides instructions for synthesizing sodium -hydroxybutyrate (GHB) from -butyrolactone and sodium hydroxide. It details the materials needed, gives safety warnings for handling sodium hydroxide solution, provides the reaction stoichiometry and molar ratios, and describes the reaction process and formation of crystal precipitate with pictures of the apparatus set up and crystals forming. The overall reaction is described as sodium hydroxide reacting with -butyrolactone in a 1:1 molar ratio to form the sodium salt of -hydroxybutyrate.

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    This document provides instructions for synthesizing sodium -hydroxybutyrate (GHB) from -butyrolactone and sodium hydroxide. It details the materials needed, gives safety warnings for handling sodium hydroxide solution, provides the reaction stoichiometry and molar ratios, and describes the reaction process and formation of crystal precipitate with pictures of the apparatus set up and crystals forming. The overall reaction is described as sodium hydroxide reacting with -butyrolactone in a 1:1 molar ratio to form the sodium salt of -hydroxybutyrate.

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    This document provides instructions for synthesizing sodium -hydroxybutyrate (GHB) from -butyrolactone and sodium hydroxide. It details the materials needed, gives safety warnings for handling sodium hydroxide solution, provides the reaction stoichiometry and molar ratios, and describes the reaction process and formation of crystal precipitate with pictures of the apparatus set up and crystals forming. The overall reaction is described as sodium hydroxide reacting with -butyrolactone in a 1:1 molar ratio to form the sodium salt of -hydroxybutyrate.

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    This document provides instructions for synthesizing sodium -hydroxybutyrate (GHB) from -butyrolactone and sodium hydroxide. It details the materials needed, gives safety warnings for handling sodium hydroxide solution, provides the reaction stoichiometry and molar ratios, and describes the reaction process and formation of crystal precipitate with pictures of the apparatus set up and crystals forming. The overall reaction is described as sodium hydroxide reacting with -butyrolactone in a 1:1 molar ratio to form the sodium salt of -hydroxybutyrate.

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    Sodium- -hydroxybutyrate.

    Materials needed:

    - NaOH 99,7% pure (Pro-Analyse quality).


    - -butyrolactone 99,7% pure (Pro-Analyse quality).
    - Round bottom flask (or another chemical resistant container).
    - Glass rod.
    - dH2O

    First you need to know a little bit of chemistry before doing this reaction.
    When NaOH is dissolved in water there is quite some heat produced, so watch out for
    that, NaOH-solution is basic, and if it gets onto your hands it will eat away your hands
    like sulfuric acid (battery acid). Especially when it is hot it will even react better with
    your skin, for that case wear safety glasses, and gloves (which are resistant against
    NaOH-solution).

    When the NaOH-solution and -butyrolactone are mixed together there will also be
    quite some heat produced, the temperature will be around 200 C.
    The solution can get to a boil, just so you know and won t get scared of the vigorous
    reaction.

    -butyrolactone and NaOH react in a molar ratio of 1:1 so that means 1 mol of NaOH
    will react with 1 mol of -butyrolactone.
    -butyrolactone: 86,1 g/mol
    NaOH : 39,99 g/mol

    So 39,99g NaOH will react with 86,1g -butyrolactone.


    The density of -butyrolactone is 1,12 g/ml so that means 86,1g is 71,75ml. (86,1g /
    1,12g/ml = 76,86ml)
    That means for a first time if you want to use 50ml -butyrolactone, (which is
    50ml*1,12g/ml=56g) you need to add.
    (56*39,99)/86,1 = 26,01g NaOH.
    So you will need:

    - 50ml -butyrolactone.
    - 26,01g NaOH.

    - 1000ml GBL
    - 520,20 g NaOH
    Put the 50ml -butyrolactone in a roundbottom flask (picture 1).

    On the second picture you can see the NaOH waiting in the measuring cilinder to be
    dissolved in water, we use for 50ml -butyrolactone 40ml water to dissolve the NaOH
    in (so that is 90% of the volume of -butyrolactone). So we dissolve 27,86g in 40ml
    water. On the third picture the NaOH is dissolved in ~40ml water.
    Here is a picture made during the rise of temperature when the NaOH is dissolved in
    water.

    The solution turns white(milk color) and gets very hot.

    When adding the NaOH solution to the -butyrolactone 2 layers will form, one layer
    which is the NaOH on the bottom, and one layer the upper layer of -butyrolactone.
    You need to shake it very very hard to get everything mixed good enough and get the
    reaction going, you need to add hot NaOH to roomtemperature -butyrolactone, all at
    once. The reaction is heavy so watch out! It will start boiling out of itself.
    After the reaction is complete (30seconds) the white layer is gone (the layer on the
    bottom of NaOH-solution). And it will look like this, it is very viscous though.

    Side view ; Top view


    After the temperature has dropped to 20*C you can measure the pH and if you did it
    right you get pH 7, which will most likely be yellow in color on your pH strip.
    Now I wanted to get crystals so I poured the whole liquid in a beaker, and started to
    boil of the water.

    This is the beaker on top of a hot lamp.

    Here quite some water evaporated and crystals started to form in solution.

    Even more crystals formed.


    Here you can see crystals precipitating out of the solution, actually the liquid is
    molten Na-GHB. And where some of the liquid came to the walls of the beaker while
    stirring the crystals started to form.

    After standing for a while in a cold enviroment, the temperature dropped quickly and
    the liquid solidified to a big solid mass, which could be scraped out of the beaker and
    which can quickly be put in a zip-lock bag.

    Reaction mechanism:

    -butyrolactone + sodiumhydroxide sodium salt of -hydroxybutyrate.

    Because of the heat the circle is opened, and at the ketone bound it breaks, and the
    hydroxy group will be added to the free electron pare at the end of the tail.
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