When it has cooled down, you'll have a big chunk of hard and dry methylamine.
Wash it a few times with chloroform and you'll end up with a fully white mush.
After a few trials on PCP-Synthesis via the N-Benzoylpiperidine route (they have all failed, if someone wants details, let me know), Swim has performed a PCP synthesis via the enamine route. The whole synthesis was illustrated with pictures, so that other bees get a easy to follow writeup…
Here we go:
Step 1: N-piperidin-cyclohexene
Into a 250ml RBF with a Dean Stark water-trap, a Dimroth reflux condensor and some boiling stones there were added 39,6ml of Piperidine, 34,5ml of cyclohexanone, 500mg of p-Toluene-sulfonic-acid and 100ml Toluene as solvent.
The mixture was heated with a heating mantle until all water had seperated (~5,4ml). Heating was stopped, and after the contents had cooled down the reaction mixture was washed with ~30ml of water to remove the catalyst acid. The organic phase was seperated, dried over Na2SO4 and distilled under aspirator vacuum to yield 45g of colourless, nearly smellless enamine. (b.p. ~ 108°C@good aspirator vacuum)