Question Nitromethane distillation

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I've done many chemistry experiments in the past but this time I decided to break bad and am going to synthesise MDMA. I have MDP-2-P on hand and have decided to do the reductive amination with Nitromethane and HgCl2. I can buy nitromethane race fuel but its only 50% pure. How do I distill/extract the nitromethane from the fuel?
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I have distilled nitromethane many times. I am going to presume your fuel is methanol based. You can get away with a simple distillation but your yield will be lower/have more methanol in it. I would recommend fractional distillation as it takes longer but can completely separate the fractions. I use a 40cm column and it does the trick perfectly. Start the temperature low so that methanol will just start to make it over. Go till no more methanol comes over. Than turn up the heat. Discard the first bit that comes over as it contains some methanol still. The fuels don't usually contain water but ensure your equipment is dried as to not introduce water as it can't be removed by distillation. Do not over heat it will decomposes if you go to hot. It will produce a bunch of nitric oxide and other bs. Overall pretty simple and well behaved, and the azeotrope is easy to separate.
 
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