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A desiccant makes things much easier, but I don't have any right now. Anyways, I managed to extract a decent amount.

I was wondering about how to recrystallize the benzoate. Initially I had black colored crystals salted out with 6g of benzoic acid added directly to acetone. They didn't dissolve easily in water. Also, while dissolving, a whole lot of oil swam up on the surface. After half an hour of stirring and heating (at around 80 degrees C), I filtered the solution, most of the oil got trapped in the filter paper and lightly solidified, some light colored solid chunks are also left behind, I don't know what those are yet. I basified the water solution with sodium carbonate, a black precipitate formed which stuck around the beaker. I poured off the basified solution, dried the beaker, and tried to dissolve the black precipitate in near boiling toluene but it barely dissolved. I poured off the toluene and put it in the freezer, a thin layer of oil formed which was not easy to scrape off, is was likely no more than a few hundred milligrams, judging by the small amount a scraped off and weighed.

Anyways, there was still a significant amount of black precipitate left, so I added a small amount of acetone, which easily dissolved it all. I filtered the acetone solution as there were some solid bits which wouldn't dissolve. I added benzoic acid and stirred a little, and a precipitate crashed out instantly. This means that toluene doesn't dissolve freebase bufotenine very well, or may be the bufotenine is not easily accessible to the solvent as it becomes trapped within the layer of fats etc.

The second benzoate precipitate is brown colored, I will test it as it is, but I was wondering if it would be possible to dissolve the benzoate directly in some solvent and recrystallize it. I tried it with IPA but the solubility is rather poor and the crystals take a long time to form.

<blockquote data-quote="Jan e Kharabat" data-source="post: 3938726" data-attributes="member: 50117">A desiccant makes things much easier, but I don&#039;t have any right now. Anyways, I managed to extract a decent amount. I was wondering about how to recrystallize the benzoate. Initially I had black colored crystals salted out with 6g of benzoic acid added directly to acetone. They didn&#039;t dissolve easily in water. Also, while dissolving, a whole lot of oil swam up on the surface. After half an hour of stirring and heating (at around 80 degrees C), I filtered the solution, most of the oil got trapped in the filter paper and lightly solidified, some light colored solid chunks are also left behind, I don&#039;t know what those are yet. I basified the water solution with sodium carbonate, a black precipitate formed which stuck around the beaker. I poured off the basified solution, dried the beaker, and tried to dissolve the black precipitate in near boiling toluene but it barely dissolved. I poured off the toluene and put it in the freezer, a thin layer of oil formed which was not easy to scrape off, is was likely no more than a few hundred milligrams, judging by the small amount a scraped off and weighed.Anyways, there was still a significant amount of black precipitate left, so I added a small amount of acetone, which easily dissolved it all. I filtered the acetone solution as there were some solid bits which wouldn&#039;t dissolve. I added benzoic acid and stirred a little, and a precipitate crashed out instantly. This means that toluene doesn&#039;t dissolve freebase bufotenine very well, or may be the bufotenine is not easily accessible to the solvent as it becomes trapped within the layer of fats etc.The second benzoate precipitate is brown colored, I will test it as it is, but I was wondering if it would be possible to dissolve the benzoate directly in some solvent and recrystallize it. I tried it with IPA but the solubility is rather poor and the crystals take a long time to form.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jan e Kharabat, post: 3938726, member: 50117"] A desiccant makes things much easier, but I don't have any right now. Anyways, I managed to extract a decent amount. I was wondering about how to recrystallize the benzoate. Initially I had black colored crystals salted out with 6g of benzoic acid added directly to acetone. They didn't dissolve easily in water. Also, while dissolving, a whole lot of oil swam up on the surface. After half an hour of stirring and heating (at around 80 degrees C), I filtered the solution, most of the oil got trapped in the filter paper and lightly solidified, some light colored solid chunks are also left behind, I don't know what those are yet. I basified the water solution with sodium carbonate, a black precipitate formed which stuck around the beaker. I poured off the basified solution, dried the beaker, and tried to dissolve the black precipitate in near boiling toluene but it barely dissolved. I poured off the toluene and put it in the freezer, a thin layer of oil formed which was not easy to scrape off, is was likely no more than a few hundred milligrams, judging by the small amount a scraped off and weighed. Anyways, there was still a significant amount of black precipitate left, so I added a small amount of acetone, which easily dissolved it all. I filtered the acetone solution as there were some solid bits which wouldn't dissolve. I added benzoic acid and stirred a little, and a precipitate crashed out instantly. This means that toluene doesn't dissolve freebase bufotenine very well, or may be the bufotenine is not easily accessible to the solvent as it becomes trapped within the layer of fats etc. The second benzoate precipitate is brown colored, I will test it as it is, but I was wondering if it would be possible to dissolve the benzoate directly in some solvent and recrystallize it. I tried it with IPA but the solubility is rather poor and the crystals take a long time to form. [/QUOTE]