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Quote from Easy Caapi Vine Alkaloid Extraction Guide - DMT-Nexus Wiki. :
Let's say we only bring the pH down to 8.0.
According to Infundibulum's calculator, only 1.56% harmaline and 66.6% harmine is in freebase form at pH 8.0.
So such a cleanup will remove pretty much all harmaline, and a third of the harmine.
The point of bringing the pH up is to freebase more alks. If we are to bring the pH back down to 8 in the cleanup stage, what's the point of *ever* increasing it above 8 in the basification stage? Any alks we gain by upping the pH from X to Y, we lose by bringing it back from Y to X.
Why not just base until we've reached pH 8.0 and stop there? Our yield will be poor, but the cleanup would make it equally poor anyway.
I must clearly be missing something here?
Add about 200ml water to the precipitate, stir, and allow to settle again. Remove and reserve liquid. Repeat this step one more time.
Before removing the liquid the third time, check its pH. It should be somewhere between 7 and 8. If the solution is still very alkaline, you haven’t removed enough NaOH and must do additional rinses. Repeat until pH is between 7 and 8.
Let's say we only bring the pH down to 8.0.
According to Infundibulum's calculator, only 1.56% harmaline and 66.6% harmine is in freebase form at pH 8.0.
So such a cleanup will remove pretty much all harmaline, and a third of the harmine.
The point of bringing the pH up is to freebase more alks. If we are to bring the pH back down to 8 in the cleanup stage, what's the point of *ever* increasing it above 8 in the basification stage? Any alks we gain by upping the pH from X to Y, we lose by bringing it back from Y to X.
Why not just base until we've reached pH 8.0 and stop there? Our yield will be poor, but the cleanup would make it equally poor anyway.
I must clearly be missing something here?