Relevant bibliography related to all things nexian

[iyiyandiyiy]

I'm currently taking up a long-abandoned interest in learning chemistry. I did have a few years of training but that was long ago, so I'm basically starting as if from zero. Being older and more mature it is being one of the most interesting experiences I could hope for. As we grow olde our capacity for synthesis increases and some of us do acquire a lot of information we can connect what we learn to, so I believe I'm understanding theory far better than I could I've hoped for while younger.

Now I'm just starting some organic chemistry books, and I still don't know what really lays in later chapters, but I'm getting the slight impression all things alkaloid, tanin etc related are not explicitly treated as such, but rather more generally (as it is an undergraduate level book after all).
ust to give you a qick example, if I google some "manske" and "harmaline", "manske beta-carbolines"... (you get the idea), interestingly, my search results are very far from what interests us here at the nexus. I know I'm not yet at the proper theoretical level to really understand what I might find, but I'd like to have a rough idea of a possible self-made curriculum of nexus-oriented organic chemistry. So my questions are:

After finishing an organic chemistry book, will I probably know where to go to from there?
After finishing an organic chemistry book, will I be able to follow the advanced discussions posted here in the nexus?

Otherwise:
What books should I write down in my "to download/buy" list aftermy currentt organic chemistry book?

Thanks guys!

 

[FlagellaStink]

I'm no organic chemistry master (yet), but what I can recommend are the subreddits r/psychlaboratory and r/theehive. There are a lot of people experienced or interested in psychedelic synthesis and organic chemistry and many who've asked questions similar to yours, so you should be able to find a lot of relevant information over there.

As for being able to understand the advanced discussion posts, experience is key. Just like with anything else, the real learning comes in actually doing it, not just studying a textbook. You could go about this any number of ways, but psychedelics can actually act as a good basis for your practical learning. There are a lot of 'recipes' publicly available for psychedelic synthesis, which are a good way to put your learning to the test, and then you can try applying your learning and do independent research on why each step does what it does.

Like baking, you can follow recipes in organic chemistry that should yield the results you want, but practice, experience, and research will lead you to a thorough understanding. In practice, you're also able to augment that knowledge hands-on which will give you a deeper understanding of what you're doing, in the same way you might tweak a recipe because you know from your past cooking experience that it would taste better.

Starting with simpler reactions and crystallizations will lay a good groundwork for more complex experiments in the future. So, to answer your question, with the holy trinity - textbook, experience, and random people on the internet, yes, you can understand and contribute to the advanced discussion posts.

There's no specified roadmap to follow in terms of books. Once you've learned it, identify what you haven't learned and what you can't do yet, and then search for the resources to fill in those gaps of knowledge. (You can download free PDF textbooks from libgen.is) The internet is literally overflowing with information about this stuff - if you know what you're looking for you'll be able to find it. Best of luck!