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OfflineDMT_Feind
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Extraction idea
    #6524130 - 02/02/07 05:01 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

I haven't seen this idea mentioned or as a tek before (although it's quite possible that I have overlooked something). I was wondering - if one were to take fresh mushrooms and place in a blender with some sort of acid (lets say acetic acid) and blend well, could the resulting material (after filtration) be a relatively stable and pure form of psilocin (psilocin acetate)? I've read where fresh mushrooms contain enzymes for dephosphorylation, and that the salt form of psilocin is much more stable than freebase psilocin. It seems that this could be a relatively simple method for extracting pure psilocin in a stable form. I'd be glad to hear comments or criticisms of this idea.

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: DMT_Feind]
    #6525325 - 02/03/07 01:03 AM (17 years, 3 months ago)

That would just be a simple acetic acid extraction. The product is not very stable because the psilocybin is subject to enzymatic dephosphorylation during the process and the resulting psilocin is quickly oxidized. I don't think that psilocin will form a salt, it's just oxidized instead. The other problem is that the product wouldn't be very pure since aqueous extractions will extract a lot of undesired compounds.

Read up on acetic acid extractions. It's a fine way to go, but the product is neither very pure nor very stable.


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Re: Extraction idea [Re: fastfred]
    #6525793 - 02/03/07 08:27 AM (17 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: Tamadragon]
    #6525848 - 02/03/07 09:12 AM (17 years, 3 months ago)

There would be no basification - at least the end product would not be a freebase. The extract might need to be basified in order to allow the psilocin to be extracted and purified further with organic solvents, but would then be transformed back into a salt afterwards.

I do remember reading that the salt form of psilocin is much more stable than psilocin, is this not true?

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: DMT_Feind]
    #6526425 - 02/03/07 12:53 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: Tamadragon]
    #6526815 - 02/03/07 03:18 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

Aqueous extractions will extract a lot of stuff, not just the actives. That's why I say that the extract won't be very pure. There will be plenty of biogunk along with the actives.

Psilocin just isn't a stable compound. It oxidizes in acetic acid just like in any other aqueous solution. It's more stable in acidic rather than basic solutions, but the acidity doesn't really protect it, it's more of a case of alkalinity destroying it outright.

Try a tiny acetic acid extraction and observe the amount of bluing. Now if you were to add an antioxidant like ascorbic acid then that will do a lot to prevent oxidation. Udok recently posted in another thread a paper where they used ascorbic acid at 25mM to pretty much eliminate oxidation during analysis of plasma samples.

Also as far as the salt form of psilocin goes... I've never heard anything about that. I don't believe that psilocin will form a salt.


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Re: Extraction idea [Re: Tamadragon]
    #6526870 - 02/03/07 03:40 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

1)Acid - alkaline extraction it is a classical reception. It is necessary to watch constantly for ph.

2)The second classical approach - selection of solvent.
3)The third - sublimation(if it happens possible) this way is ideal for crystals of clean iodine

Now I try the second approach. I have very clean results - white crystals.
I recommend to use 190 proofs (by PF). why? because this solvent ph-neutral, psb is dissolved in it at 78' and crystallizes at cooling. You can use 200ìë 190 proofs again and again if will use a return refrigerator. And two most important things: 190 proofs - it is not poisonous also to you and it is not necessary to be the chemist.



Acid - alkaline extraction it is very interesting. I cannot tell anything that psbn and pscn can be to transforms. I think that pscn will be taken as pscn, but not as the freebasis.
_______If will assume that pscn is taken as the basis, that it will take place after neutralization of an acid by alkali? what value of ph you prefer and whether pscn agree with your choice?
In any case I recommend to use a solution of an acetic acid and domestic soda for this reaction.

For that to allocate psbn and pscn as salts it would be necessary to process mushrooms by alkali. But I too heard nothing that psbn and pscn are salts of any acids.

p\s\It is necessary to specify precisely CHEMICAL PROPERTIES of psbn and pscn.Anybody never precisely could describe to me those reactions in which these substances can enter



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Re: Extraction idea [Re: fastfred]
    #6527194 - 02/03/07 05:41 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: Tamadragon]
    #6527297 - 02/03/07 06:16 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

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Psilocin just isn't a stable compound. It oxidizes in acetic acid just like in any other aqueous solution. It's more stable in acidic rather than basic solutions, but the acidity doesn't really protect it, it's more of a case of alkalinity destroying it outright.

Try a tiny acetic acid extraction and observe the amount of bluing. Now if you were to add an antioxidant like ascorbic acid then that will do a lot to prevent oxidation. Udok recently posted in another thread a paper where they used ascorbic acid at 25mM to pretty much eliminate oxidation during analysis of plasma samples.




It is the air in and around the solvent which makes psilocin oxidize. One could flush it first with argon or work under a stream of nitrogen to prevent this.

The amino group of psilocin can form a salt with acetic acid, but if this can be isolated as a crystalline salt is a different question.

A salt form of psilocin will protect the amino group, but the 4-OH is as naked as it will ever be.

By "psilocin acetate" you probably mean the "4-acetate" instead of the "N-acetate". 4-acetoxy-DMT, which is made by the acetylation of psilocin, thus providing a protection of the hydroxyl group, will be easily deprotected in the aqueous acidic stomach environment.

The process of acetylation requires either acetic anhydride or acetyl chloride, chemicals that are closely watched by the powers that be as they are key reagents for the production of heroin.

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: hjalmar]
    #6527311 - 02/03/07 06:20 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

Ascorbic acid would be somewhat better than acetic acid, as has already been said here, it is an antioxidant.

But for extraction of practical amounts of psilocin ( <-> extraction for chromatographic purposes) you will certainly need to work under an inert atmosphere.

Argon is recommended, as it is easily available, and heavier than air so you don't need a constant stream of gas.

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: hjalmar]
    #6527454 - 02/03/07 06:57 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

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I get real lonely

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: Tamadragon]
    #6527627 - 02/03/07 07:55 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

Yep it comes in a tank used for welding.

You can buy small bottles too.

Also you wiil better work with real lab equipment for this, mayonnaise jars won't do.

A two-necked flask would be ideal for this.

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: hjalmar]
    #6527900 - 02/03/07 09:27 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

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Edited by Tamadragon (02/28/07 02:32 PM)

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: hjalmar]
    #6527925 - 02/03/07 09:35 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

The oxygen might not have much to do with the oxidation if my theory is correct...



If my structure of psilocybeen is right then simple removal of a proton is all it would take to oxidize. Obviously O2 would be a factor, but I don't think it's necessarily required. Inert atmospheres might be overkill or simply ineffective.


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Re: Extraction idea [Re: fastfred]
    #6527981 - 02/03/07 09:54 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: Tamadragon]
    #6528006 - 02/03/07 10:03 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

Why bother with removing the ascorbic acid? It functions great as a preservative and you can't really get too much vitamin C.

I'm still looking at EDTA as a preservative, but vitamin C should be a given in any extraction IMHO. Even using it just for storage of dried mushies seems like a good idea to me.


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Re: Extraction idea [Re: fastfred]
    #6528074 - 02/03/07 10:27 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: Tamadragon]
    #6528414 - 02/04/07 12:11 AM (17 years, 3 months ago)

It's just vinegar, I would just throw it in some salad dressing and eat it on a salad. Think how nice that would be, a vinegar based itallian style dressing with a hint of mushroom flavor. Mmm, mmm good.

As for the ascorbic acid, I would say that it shouldn't be much of a problem. 25 mM is plenty according to the literature. That would be about 4.4 grams per L. They also said that 10 mM worked pretty good too. That's only 1.76 g/L solvent.


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Re: Extraction idea [Re: fastfred]
    #6528451 - 02/04/07 12:19 AM (17 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: Extraction idea [Re: Tamadragon]
    #6528869 - 02/04/07 03:49 AM (17 years, 3 months ago)

beginning extraction it is necessary to understand that you do not receive clean substance. You should establish criterion for yourselves......for example, for me it is white crystals). I think that nobody interests to allocate indol from mushrooms.

I very much like idea by fastfred about EDTA as preservative(it is the future in the present for me....as mobile phone near my head :^)

today I don't pay attention on lost pscn. why? because I have no way of an estimation of the lost opportunities and because mushrooms grow quickly, and my products of extraction as white crystals are strong pitch in a head.

for those who did not saw pscn and psbn I recommend 190proof+ascorbic acid+EDTA by FF + the activated coal (for absorption of mushroom oils) + hot qualitative filtering (why hot? because during cooling solvent here is a formation of crystals which can not pass through your filters. do it twice
It is enough for seen, but as it can be is advanced by use of precisely thought over algorithm of filtering.


p\s\the daily doze of vitamin C is 2 grammes/day. I drink it a volley and I enjoy. There is no necessity to make neutralization of this acid.


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