Hey, thanks for sexy video.
I wonder if you know Perrine paper about bupropion synthesis in NMP (Im sure you do, apparently he got an idea to use NMP).
If not, here you go:
Perrine, D. M.; Ross, J. T.; Nervi, S. J.; Zimmerman, R. H. A Short, One-Pot Synthesis of Bupropion (Zyban®, Wellbutrin®). J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77 (11), 1479– 1480, DOI: 10.1021/ed077p1479
If you carefully read SI you will see that they had to wash out methylamine from organic layer. Had to be couple of times of water washing. In your procedure you don't even wash organic (benzene) layer, thus I wonder if you ever check melting point? Seems it might be mix of 4mmc and methylamine hydrochloride.