A brief outline of my procedure.
A simple A/B extraction
* Boil citric acid
* naptha (tested by evaporation) defatt
* sodium carbonate basify
* DCM pull
* naptha separating n,n DMT
* IPA pick up left overs (probably N-oxide DMT)
The DCM pull evaporating in a glass bowl overnight in the morning initially was disappointed, as a very non viscous liquid collected at the bottom of the bowl.
Later that evening, however, the liquid had changed in viscosity from very fast running non viscose to extremely slow, almost rigid - viscose. And the first white deposits gave hope that the evaporation would simply drag on; after all, I'm not familiar with this sort of thing.
The next morning, yellow drops were suddenly scattered all over the bowl, with only a few snow-white structures in the corners and sides. With imagination, it was like a negative of a snowflake.
Unsure how to collect this result from the bowl, and a surgical procedure on my tongue resulted in the bowl sitting unnoticed for two more days.
Day 5 or 6 after the evaporation night, the bowl was populated by this negative snowflake network, but the snowy white had transformed into a yellowish white or off-white.
Upon closer inspection, it became clear that all of the oily spots had indeed transformed.
Next, the resulting substance could be easily scraped from the glass. The scale showed 0.115g. I hoped and suspected that I actually had N,N DMT and N-oxide DMT.
For various reasons, primarily curiosity about a crystal, I then dissolved the extracted material in warm naptha. Some dissolved spontaneously, and some clumped together in a reddish-brown color at the bottom of the glass.
The naptha was pipetted into a tapered glass (a champagne glass). This was sealed with cling film with minimal perforation.
The reddish-brown clumps were easily dissolved in IPA to 99.6% and evaporated with a fan.
Because the glas size with IPA evap didn't allow to collect the now very sticky material. It was picked up with IPA again and transferred to a wider lower bowl.
Trying to scrap off this what hopefully is N-oxide DMT resulted in remembering the words I read lately by someone in this forum. Something like "if you got N-oxide don't collecting it just do a changa with it"
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Correct me if I am wrong please, but the crystals in the champagne glass look like n,n DMT for me.
After the cleaning/separating the weight did drop to lower then a ⅓.
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Q-1: Is there anything that clearly speaks against this being N-oxide? The information I've been able to find so far has basically only pointed to N-oxide. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any photos for comparison to date.
Q-2: is N-oxide Ethanol-soluble? What solvent would you recommend if ethanol won't for doing a N-oxid change?
Hope this post is somewhat good formated and maybe got some "relevant" information beside the DCM for Pull.
Walking in the subway ATM. Will post it for now
