Greetings, fellow travelers.
I recently carried out my first DMT extraction and I want to share the procedure and the results. Maybe you have some advice on how to improve my tek.
Procedure:
First water was acidified with citric acid to pH 3, then 20 grams of shredded MHRB was added to the water. The mixture was kept at slightly below 100 degrees and was agitated occasionally. After 90 minutes, the MHRB was strained off, and the solution was placed in a seperate container but kept heated. This procedure was repeated three times before the MHRB was discarded. The three solutions were combined, and were then evaporated down to a volume of 400 ml.
After the solution had cooled slightly, 6 grams of sodium hydroxide was added to neutralize the acid and bring the pH up to 13.
The solution was then transferred to a 500 ml bottle, and 20 ml heptane was added to the bottle. The bottle was agitated every couple of minutes, before being left in a warm water bath. The layers then seperated, the heptane was transferred to an evaporation dish. After it had evaporated to half its initial volume, it was placed in a freezer with a temperature of -32 degrees.
Crystals of DMT precipitated, and were put aside.
After doing several more pulls with partly reused solvent and partly fresh, all the DMT crystals were redissolved in 80 ml heptane, which was then evaporated down to 40 ml, before being placed in the freezer.
Results:
After the recrystallization, I got around 200 mg of nice yellowish DMT crystals
This represents a yield of around 1%, which I'm pretty happy with for my first time :thumb_up:
I'll attatch some photos of the crystals
I recently carried out my first DMT extraction and I want to share the procedure and the results. Maybe you have some advice on how to improve my tek.
Procedure:
First water was acidified with citric acid to pH 3, then 20 grams of shredded MHRB was added to the water. The mixture was kept at slightly below 100 degrees and was agitated occasionally. After 90 minutes, the MHRB was strained off, and the solution was placed in a seperate container but kept heated. This procedure was repeated three times before the MHRB was discarded. The three solutions were combined, and were then evaporated down to a volume of 400 ml.
After the solution had cooled slightly, 6 grams of sodium hydroxide was added to neutralize the acid and bring the pH up to 13.
The solution was then transferred to a 500 ml bottle, and 20 ml heptane was added to the bottle. The bottle was agitated every couple of minutes, before being left in a warm water bath. The layers then seperated, the heptane was transferred to an evaporation dish. After it had evaporated to half its initial volume, it was placed in a freezer with a temperature of -32 degrees.
Crystals of DMT precipitated, and were put aside.
After doing several more pulls with partly reused solvent and partly fresh, all the DMT crystals were redissolved in 80 ml heptane, which was then evaporated down to 40 ml, before being placed in the freezer.
Results:
After the recrystallization, I got around 200 mg of nice yellowish DMT crystals
This represents a yield of around 1%, which I'm pretty happy with for my first time :thumb_up: I'll attatch some photos of the crystals
nice crystal pics, well done :thumb_up:
