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Evaporation/Condensation of Alkaloids
    #12324359 - 04/03/10 03:30 PM (14 years, 1 month ago)

Here's the background:

In my 2nd year of college chemistry, we did a lab (that, funnily enough, involved an a/b extraction - which I had already done before on my own.  If you don't know why I would have done an a/b extraction outside of school, trust me you'll have a lot of fun finding out.)

Anyway, the last step in purifying our product (caffeine in this case), we set up a flask with a stopper that had a hole wide enough for a test tube to fit in it.  In that test tube we placed ice water.  At the bottom of the beaker was the crude caffeine extract.  We heated the extract to the boiling point of caffeine, and it moved up and condensed on the test tube (known as the "cold finger")

Is this technique of any use at the fringes of mycology, or do the alkaloids in question degrade too easily, or what?  Just curious!  Thanks


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Re: Evaporation/Condensation of Alkaloids [Re: the spiral]
    #12324970 - 04/03/10 05:33 PM (14 years, 1 month ago)

For our friends the bluing mushrooms it'd be of little use. I doubt it'd work at all for psilocybin and for psilocin it'd likely have to be done in a nitrogen atmosphere and possibly under reduced pressure (google 'vacuum sublimation').
The only other real application of sublimation to psilocin would be subliming a mix of psilocin and zinc dust, followed by an A/B of that with high pH to obtain the most expensive DMT on the planet :lol:

As for the other medicinals it'd depend entirely on the mushroom species in question


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