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Now you see why SWIM’s been trying so hard to get bufotenine purified. The pure stuff is AWESOME!
Dude…SWIM found a new way to crystallize bufotenine that works really well and uses only 1 solvent. Unfortunately, it’s the one solvent SWIM hates: XYLENE. God awful smelling stuff. However bufotenine crystallizes really easily in xylene. Here’s how you do it:
Take your sticky crappy freebase extract (from an A/B extraction using DCM), pour xylene on it. Nothing should dissolve. Now, bring it to a very light boil and mix a little. Very lightly boil it for about 5 minutes. There will be dark brown crap at the bottom of the beaker, and the xylene will look pretty clear. While very hot pour the xylene into another beaker being careful only to pour the clear portion leaving all the dark brown material behind. When the xylene cools down it starts looking cloudy. Let it sit for a few hours or until it looks completely clear. You’ll see little tiny cauliflower shaped crystals on the sides and bottom of the beaker. They are very tiny. These are freebase bufotenine crystals! Pour off the xylene, and dry at 100 C until the smell of the xylene is gone. The xylene can be re-used to extract more bufotenine from the impure extract.
Apparently bufotenine is insoluble in room temperature xylene. The amber/brown toxins are also insoluble in xylene. But when you boil xylene it gets slightly hotter than the melting point of bufotenine, and that makes the bufotenine extremely soluble in the xylene (about 1566 mg per 100 ml of boiling xylene). The toxins however remain insoluble in the xylene, even while boiling hot. When the xylene cools below the melting point of the bufotenine, bufotenine starts dropping out of solution quickly. This is why the crystals that form are so small.
Xylene is fairly easy for most people to get. It’s sold at many hardware stores. The crystallization process is so simple anyone can do it. Xylene used this way works better than the 40:60 mix of MEK and heptane. However, the crystals produced in the 40:60 mix of MEK and heptane mix are much larger and far more beautiful, but there’s also a little more amber contamination, and it doesn’t pull as much bufotenine. The boiling xylene pulls more bufotenine and far less of the amber toxic junk.
SWIM is still working to get a tech together that’s really easy that ends up with pure crystals. Xylene seems to be an easy to get solvent, and it’s pretty cheap.
SWIM is going to look at possible ways of utilizing xylene in a simple kitchen style Yopo extraction tech.