Hi everyone, nice to join the community:) yv-xest

[yv-xest]

Going to do my first extraction, wish me luck
And thanks all the pioneers for their work

 

[ABe©eDarian]

Hello. Good luck and be safe.

 

[yv-xest]

Thanks

 

[RitualOpossum]

Good luck buddy!

 

[Nydex]

Make sure to share some nice xtal photos when you're done!

 

[yv-xest]

Make sure to share some nice xtal photos when you're done!

Update! First results, barely get smth. It was my fault though, chose a wrong solvent f-ed up first few pulls then extracted with zippo fluid
At least clean though. And got some experience

 

[Nydex]

Update! First results, barely get smth. It was my fault though, chose a wrong solvent f-ed up first few pulls then extracted with zippo fluid
At least clean though. And got some experience

Hey I've seen way worse first attempts! Now at least you know. How much bark did you start with, and was it mimosa or acacia?

 

[yv-xest]

Hey I've seen way worse first attempts! Now at least you know. How much bark did you start with, and was it mimosa or acacia?

Tnx for kind words. I started with 50g mhrb, powdered myself with coffee grinder, then used CYBs method without acid step.

First attempt is not an excuse bro I am analytical chemist

 

[yv-xest]

Will update here about second extraction

 

[Nydex]

First attempt is not an excuse bro I am analytical chemist

Oh cmon don't give yourself a hard time, there's a learning curve to everything. It's really cool that you're an analytical chemist though, I love it when experienced chemists join the forum! We already have a few amazing ones around here that I'm sure you'll find plenty to talk about with, like @benzyme and @endlessness, and others that might not be professional chemists but have vast knowledge in the science, like @Transform.

Cheers and good luck with the second extraction, I'm expecting a glass dish fully covered in delicious white fluff

 

[yv-xest]

Will update here about second extraction

Oh cmon don't give yourself a hard time, there's a learning curve to everything. It's really cool that you're an analytical chemist though, I love it when experienced chemists join the forum! We already have a few amazing ones around here that I'm sure you'll find plenty to talk about with, like @benzyme and @endlessness, and others that might not be professional chemists but have vast knowledge in the science, like @Transform.

Cheers and good luck with the second extraction, I'm expecting a glass dish fully covered in delicious white fluff

Thanks, this community is really amazing

P.S. I am not judging myself too hard That was partially a joke, as someone who has worked only in lab with analytical grade chemicals, I have a lot to learn from experienced members)

Although I have worked and developed various analysis methods myself, I truly admire the methods put together by community members, especially the robustness to work with various grade chemicals, that's really amazing! Such robustness can only be achieved by constant upgrades and feedback. Hopefully I will contribute in future too.
Love, yv-xest

 

[bezevo]

how many puls ?

 

[yv-xest]

how many puls ?

This would be equivalent of 4th pull, (I f-ed up 1st 3)

 

[bezevo]

well did you save the first 3 pulls or throw them away ... like throw away most of the product .? or ?

 

[yv-xest]

So the problem was that I used solvent without proper evap test, which after evap had oily residue. I have already done 3 pulls with this solvent so to get rid of it I added some concentrated formic acid to ionize DMT and transfer in to aqueous phase. Then I separated the acidified aqueous phase and added some NaOH to increase pH, for further extraction with proper solvent. The problem is that I did not have any pH paper at a time and honestly thought that NaOH as a strong base will quickly neutralize FA and increase pH. So at this point I added zippo fluid thinking that DMT is in a free base form, and just through away the aqueous phase. As you can already imagine I did not get proper crystals from here and almost certain that DMT was still in protonated form in the FA/NaOH solution and just got thrown away

 

[bezevo]

so you trew most of the DMT away .

 

[yv-xest]

Yeah

 

[bezevo]

never throw away any problamatic puls , as some one here could have told you how to recover .

are you just making up an inspector gadget tek of mix and match steps from various teks ,, because thats not a good idea ether

 

[yv-xest]

Yeah I agree throwing it away was dumb...
I don't understand what inspector gadget tek means but there was no initial intention to change anything from CYBs method, the cleaning from bad solvent step was obvious, at least I thought so

 

[Nydex]

Lesson learned I guess I still remember my first ever extraction attempt...I had great results after freeze precip, dish bottom was almost completely covered with crystals, and then I pulled it out, poured out the NPS, and pointed a fan at it and turned it on to evap quicker, but like the dumbass I was, I didn't think of cleaning the fan properly, and of course turns out there was a thick layer of dust caking the blades because the fan hadn't been used in a while. All of that dust went into the spice...

Then I tried "washing" it with acetone, and to filter out the dust particles and crap, I pulled a -200 IQ move and used kitchen towel as a filter because I didn't have coffee filters, and so of course the paper soaked absolutely all the acetone I poured in it, not a single drop went through, and by the time I recovered from the panic that overtook me the paper was mostly dry as the acetone evaporated, and for some bizarre reason instead of getting back on the Nexus and asking for advice, I just tossed the paper towel in the bin and settled on the idea of doing another extraction...There was probably a good few grams of deems on that paper. Oh well...