Different extraction techniques

[Adivino]

I was reading about column chromatography and electrophoresis. Both are very interesting and commonly used techniques in the lab. I was wondering if anybody tried to use one of these techniques for the extraction of plant alkaloids, such as mescaline.
The difficult part would be analyzing whether a fraction obtained from the column is, in fact, mescaline. I guess that this would be difficult to do at home.
On the other hand, as far as I know, electrophoresis is not used for extraction, but instead for qualitative analysis of solutes.

Anyway, has anybody tried one of these techniques? With or without success.

 

[benzyme]

isn't there already a thread about this?

these are not extraction techniques; they are separation techniques, which can be used in preparative or analytical applications.

 

[alzabo]

It's exciting tech.
I posted a similar thread, here's the original post:
https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&m=149184#post149184

Someone was telling me about a technique for seperating out chemicals (specifically dmt and mescalin) from plant matter via a centrifuge and electrified mesh/screen. Does anyone know anything about this?

I tried to look it up through scroogle and wikipedia hopping but the clossest I came was finding some articles on electrophoresis, which does look very cool in it's own right.

Diy electrophoresis using clear drinking straws:
http://titojankowski.com/?p=152

Gravity assisted electrophoresis:

http://forums.mycotopia....lkaloids.html#post508771

Now I'm wondering if some form of electrophoresis or other analytical separation techniques could be applied to the phalaris grass. Perhaps there is a way to avoid using the Xanthydrol reagent as would be done with TLC to distinguish between nn and 5me0.