Alright i have a question about phalaris. Lets assume there are 200 alkaloids in phalaris, this is only for illustration im sure it doesn't contain that many. A chemist would take a solvent mixture which he was aware of the dmt rf value for and run a column chromotography.
At the bottom of the column he would collect several fractions of the mixture of the column and have each in a separate jar. To see what each jar contained he would run a tlc on each jar. Lets say theoretically jar number 5 was shown to contain dmt. Now here is where the issue arises. Is there any possibility that there is a substance in jar number 5 that the tlc did not show the presence of, perhaps the presence of dmt masked it or something like that?
Or can you be absolutely sure that jar number 5 contains pure dmt and you just evaporate the solvent and smoke it.
At the bottom of the column he would collect several fractions of the mixture of the column and have each in a separate jar. To see what each jar contained he would run a tlc on each jar. Lets say theoretically jar number 5 was shown to contain dmt. Now here is where the issue arises. Is there any possibility that there is a substance in jar number 5 that the tlc did not show the presence of, perhaps the presence of dmt masked it or something like that?
Or can you be absolutely sure that jar number 5 contains pure dmt and you just evaporate the solvent and smoke it.