Syrian Rue tea and a couple vape puffs

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A later post in the same thread as the last one mentioned in the previous post also highlights a point of possible relevance:

Post in thread 'Need help from a Chemist'

Oct 28, 2016

and yeah of course traces of Harmalacidine can certainly react to give the ring opening. I was speaking about the harmala alkaloids that were suggested. Though I haven't heard of the stuff before, it must be present in a pretty low concentration.

The 1988 Siddiqui et al. paper elucidating the structure of harmalacidine suggests that it is not very water soluble. The authors made an extract of rue seeds with ethanol and evaporated the ethanol. The residue was split between a fraction soluble in 5% acetic:hydrochloric 1:1 and the remainder. Harmalicidine was found in the...

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