Soluble in: alcohol, chloroform, benzene, xylene, toluene, acetone, dichloromethane, highly soluble in isopropyl alcohol, soluble in d-limonene
Moderately soluble in: water
Insoluble in: practically insoluble in ether or petroleum ether
SKA said:It's a shame that so often soap forms and makes layers hard to separate.
Obviously mixing dry cactus powder with Lye and then mixing in water
doesn't seem a good idea either.(Reaction heat could break down Mescaline?)
Maybe someone here could revise this method.
As long as the solvents, acids & bases used
are easily obtainable.
Nexus Wiki sais that Mescaline is:
Soluble in: alcohol, chloroform, benzene, xylene, toluene, acetone, dichloromethane, highly soluble in isopropyl alcohol, soluble in d-limonene
Moderately soluble in: water
Insoluble in: practically insoluble in ether or petroleum ether
Perhaps dried san pedro powder could be washed with Petroleum Ether first
(or another solvent in which Mescaline is insoluble)
You just soak the SP-powder in Petroleum Ether for 30 mins & then filter off
the plant-oil-saturated Petroleum Ether through a coffee filter. Repeat 3 to 4 times.
After a couple of Petroleum Ether washes the Mescaline in the SP-powder could
perhaps be extracted with several portions of Ethanol.
This Ethanol can either be evaporated on a baking dish to leave a Mescaline residue
or put in the freezer untill the Mescaline crystals precipitate out & then filter out the crystals.
Just a quick sketch based on the Solubility characteristics of Mescaline.
If anyone has a better idea, please share it with us.
Another method i like, is since mesc fb is very soluble in iso, make a lime/cactus powder paste, add water, mix and let it sit for a day or so, dry it and powderize, then add to a narrow glass container. Pull with DRY isopropyl, 3x, should not require day long pulls, but to be safe i would, plus it gives time for it to decant.
Then collect, filter, and evap that iso, adding distilled vinegar, or dilute hcl water before or after evapping. As long as you salt all the freebase in the dry iso, then wash with a small volume of warm np 2-3x, you should be able to fully dry what remains, wash with cold dry acetone/iso and get xtyals. Acetates might be an issue here as they are more soluble in alcohols vs. hcl, but not impossible from what I've read.
Redissolve hcls in a minimal amount of distilled water, or hot iso, and evap. Iso works better as crystals form sooner and the impurities are less concentrated/get caught up in the precipitates vs. using water, where it crystallizes only at the very end as its so damn soluble. Scrape up, Crush and wash with cold dry iso/tone once more, and you should have almost white, near odorless very sparkly pure mescaline hcls. Acetates work, just make sure you aren't losing product in the cold acetone/iso washes.
Swim tried this and HCl gassing out mesc from the d-limo did work, however the precip was an impure light blue/green likely due to impuirites, and the precipitate was too fine for the filter paper on hand. :thumb_dow So, it was not an effective extraction method and swim had to improvise and pull with 1% HCl/H2O.Kash said:I am guessing that mescaline hcl is not soluble in d-limonene. Therefore, instead of doing an aqueous acid extract, would it not be possible to precipitate mescaline hcl straight out of the d-limonene by bubbling in hcl gas?
SKA said:It's a shame that so often soap forms and makes layers hard to separate.
Obviously mixing dry cactus powder with Lye and then mixing in water
doesn't seem a good idea either.(Reaction heat could break down Mescaline?)
Has SWYM tried this and the precipitate been collectable? Its one thing to form a salt and a whole other thing to collect it lol. This would be very ideal if the crystals were actually large enough to filter.The Traveler said:One other tek is to salt out the Mescaline by the use of adding FASA to the d-limo, that way the mescaline will drop out in the form of mescaline-fumarate. Infundibulum tought me that.
Kind regards,
The Traveler