blue.magic
Rising Star
After carefully following Cyb's Max ION Tek, I obtained 970 mg yellowish spice from 100 g MHRB powder. That is 0.97% yield.
However, by redissolving in heptane, separating from orange goo, washing the solvent and freeze precipitation, I was left with only 230 mg.
I left some of the goo as well as leftover heptane from freeze precip. to fully evaporate to give me some 140 mg yellow-ish/orange-ish spice, that still almost 62% loss!
Is this normal?
People often report yields of 0.7-1.5% but even after several trials, I still can't get over 0.3%.
Could this be a weak MHRB? I don't know what am I doing wrong: enough lye (also tried KOH), tried different acids, salting the water, heating both solvent and the water, recycling alkaloid-containing solvent, pre-evaporating, washing every container with solvent three times etc. following almost analytical lab techniques, yet I still can't get even close to yields obtained by many with much simpler approach.
I tried A/B, STB, ATB and the result is always the same - very small amount of product.
People say it's cheaper to make DMT yourself, but for me it's several times more expensive due to such diminishing yields.
I want to keep making it myself though, because I want to know what chemicals were used and make sure it is absolutely food safe.
However, by redissolving in heptane, separating from orange goo, washing the solvent and freeze precipitation, I was left with only 230 mg.
I left some of the goo as well as leftover heptane from freeze precip. to fully evaporate to give me some 140 mg yellow-ish/orange-ish spice, that still almost 62% loss!
Is this normal?
People often report yields of 0.7-1.5% but even after several trials, I still can't get over 0.3%.
Could this be a weak MHRB? I don't know what am I doing wrong: enough lye (also tried KOH), tried different acids, salting the water, heating both solvent and the water, recycling alkaloid-containing solvent, pre-evaporating, washing every container with solvent three times etc. following almost analytical lab techniques, yet I still can't get even close to yields obtained by many with much simpler approach.
I tried A/B, STB, ATB and the result is always the same - very small amount of product.
People say it's cheaper to make DMT yourself, but for me it's several times more expensive due to such diminishing yields.
I want to keep making it myself though, because I want to know what chemicals were used and make sure it is absolutely food safe.