Purpsmagurps
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Overview: This procedure is essentially an acid-base (A/B) extraction with one simple additional step and one additional, but critical material, elemental zinc powder. Necessary items have been underlined. Zn powder (the finer the better) can be acquired easily and cheaply in small quantities if you search the web...so lets get started:
Our starting point is DMT n-oxide, either the oil from a Bestine recrystallization, which many of us (myself included) have heretofore used "as is" (harsh and not a clean feeling high) or have simply thrown away in the past. What a shame! If you take the time to dry your n-oxide oil by leaving it out in an open shot glass for 24 - 48 hours, it WILL thicken and crystallize into a dirty yellow to brown tacky powder which you can then chop into crumbly, powdery bits as illustrated. Here is 400mg on a white card so you will recognize the product:
Procedure: 400mg of DMT-n-oxide is added to 6 ml of ascetic acid (white vinegar) in a flask with a magnetic stirrer. You may use a jar and a glass marble as a substitute. The solution will turn a muddy yellow-brown.
400mg of elemental zinc was carefully weighed and added to the solution, and stirred for two (2) hours using a magnetic stirrer. You may just carry your jar around and give it a swirl every couple of minutes.
After two hours, the solution was diluted with an additional 14 cc's of distilled water (making a total volume of 20cc's) and then basified to a Ph of ~ 10 (MUST be 9.5 or higher, use a tester or litmus paper!) using food grade sodium carbonate. Add the base slowly, and test often. A beautiful snow-white precipitation will appear: IMPERATIVE SAFETY NOTE: THIS IS SODIUM CARBONATE, NOT SODIUM HYDROXIDE (LYE!) PLEASE DO NOT USE LYE AS YOUR BASE!!! READ THE LABEL IN THE PIC AND MAKE SURE YOU USE THE RIGHT / SAME STUFF!!!!
Add 20cc's of naphtha, and treat just as you would if you were doing a MHRB extraction. Swirl often at room temperature. The naphtha will turn a pale urine-yellow, and the precipitate will slowly disappear as it migrates into the naphtha. Pipette off ONLY the naphtha (use an eye dropper if you must) and freeze precipitate to recover n,n,DMT. DONE!
Here's the final, snow white powder shown as a precipitate in 20cc's of naphtha:
And here is the final product as an eggshell-colored final powder, which weighed in at exactly 47mg - and VERY pure and VERY active!!! Please compare with start!!!
Please note: Naphtha can only hold 1 gram (1000mg) of n,n,DMT per 100cc's, so do multiple extractions just as you would with bark. The volume of naphtha was kept low in this experiment because I prefer to freeze precipitate as opposed to evaporate solvent (no vapors, no smell). You may do otherwise.
I'll update one final time to set out with more particularity, the proportions and volumes - but you can probably figure that out on your own by scaling to your starting mass of n-oxide!
Edit dated 9/3/11: Four pulls completed, 128mg recovered thus far. Heated while stirring on magnetic stirrer to 85 degrees centigrade, and got a modest emulsion. Don't use heat! Still able to pull and have two more in the freezer that look promising!
Best to all,
Our starting point is DMT n-oxide, either the oil from a Bestine recrystallization, which many of us (myself included) have heretofore used "as is" (harsh and not a clean feeling high) or have simply thrown away in the past. What a shame! If you take the time to dry your n-oxide oil by leaving it out in an open shot glass for 24 - 48 hours, it WILL thicken and crystallize into a dirty yellow to brown tacky powder which you can then chop into crumbly, powdery bits as illustrated. Here is 400mg on a white card so you will recognize the product:
Procedure: 400mg of DMT-n-oxide is added to 6 ml of ascetic acid (white vinegar) in a flask with a magnetic stirrer. You may use a jar and a glass marble as a substitute. The solution will turn a muddy yellow-brown.
400mg of elemental zinc was carefully weighed and added to the solution, and stirred for two (2) hours using a magnetic stirrer. You may just carry your jar around and give it a swirl every couple of minutes.
After two hours, the solution was diluted with an additional 14 cc's of distilled water (making a total volume of 20cc's) and then basified to a Ph of ~ 10 (MUST be 9.5 or higher, use a tester or litmus paper!) using food grade sodium carbonate. Add the base slowly, and test often. A beautiful snow-white precipitation will appear: IMPERATIVE SAFETY NOTE: THIS IS SODIUM CARBONATE, NOT SODIUM HYDROXIDE (LYE!) PLEASE DO NOT USE LYE AS YOUR BASE!!! READ THE LABEL IN THE PIC AND MAKE SURE YOU USE THE RIGHT / SAME STUFF!!!!
Add 20cc's of naphtha, and treat just as you would if you were doing a MHRB extraction. Swirl often at room temperature. The naphtha will turn a pale urine-yellow, and the precipitate will slowly disappear as it migrates into the naphtha. Pipette off ONLY the naphtha (use an eye dropper if you must) and freeze precipitate to recover n,n,DMT. DONE!
Here's the final, snow white powder shown as a precipitate in 20cc's of naphtha:
And here is the final product as an eggshell-colored final powder, which weighed in at exactly 47mg - and VERY pure and VERY active!!! Please compare with start!!!
Please note: Naphtha can only hold 1 gram (1000mg) of n,n,DMT per 100cc's, so do multiple extractions just as you would with bark. The volume of naphtha was kept low in this experiment because I prefer to freeze precipitate as opposed to evaporate solvent (no vapors, no smell). You may do otherwise.
I'll update one final time to set out with more particularity, the proportions and volumes - but you can probably figure that out on your own by scaling to your starting mass of n-oxide!
Edit dated 9/3/11: Four pulls completed, 128mg recovered thus far. Heated while stirring on magnetic stirrer to 85 degrees centigrade, and got a modest emulsion. Don't use heat! Still able to pull and have two more in the freezer that look promising!
Best to all,
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