MrEDuck
Well-Known Member
It's really not practical considering there are like eleventyone billion plants that it can be extracted from. See Plants of the Gods for a list.Been thinking and I was wondering if that duck of yours has synthed DMT from store bought L-tryptophan.
Doesn't seem all to extensive and with a well drawn out process, yield might be pretty large.
Decarboxylation of 10g L-tryptophan to for an roughly estimated 9g(90%) yield of tryptamine.
Where would one go from there?
To make DMT from tryptamine you can methylate it with iodomethane and form the trimethylammonium salt, then knock a methyl group off (see TiHKAL for details). Or you can use formic acid to form the amide and reduce it.
If you want to synth something from tryptophan I would suggest reducing it to make AMT, or reducing it to the alcohol and extending it by reaction with a cyanide and reducing to make AET. Obviously I do not reccomend anyone play around with cyanide outside of a real lab with plenty of experience. The reaction would run best with an acid solution of KCN. You know what else we use an acidic solution of KCN for? Gas chambers.