Shroom synthesis?

[blank stare]

I'm not looking to actually synthesize psilocin or psilocybin, but rather to isolate them. I know there are quite a few chemists on this board, I figured someone would have some idea. Is there any type of solvent I can use to extract the chemicals, and nothing else?

[Wendle T. Wolf]

not to be rude, but search the web mang

[Syko]

I will also attempt to not be too rude, but from my quick check just then, Erowid.org has an extraction guide.http://www.erowid.org/plants/mushroo...journal1.shtml

You should be right with this?

Pure ethanol, you wanted a solvent to use and this will keep it simple and give you a reasonable yield from what I have read.

Either way, check the link and if you want more info, I'll send you what else I can find in an email as a fair amount of my info is in the form of .txt's or .pdf's.

[icecool]

A representative sample of 2 to 10g of dried mushrooms is ground to a fine powder by mortar and pestle. The powder is mixed with 100 mL of dilute acetic acid in a 250-mL beaker. The pH is readjusted to pH 4 with glacial acetic acid. After standing 1 h, the beaker is placed in a boiling water bath for 8 to 10 min or until the internal temperature of the acid mixture reaches 70°C. The beaker is removed and cooled to room temperature under running water. The acid mixture is separated from the mushroom powder by suction filtration using glass wool. The filtrate is brought to pH 8 with concentrated ammonium hydroxide and quickly extracted with two 50-mL portions of diethyl ether. Gentle mixing instead of shaking should be used to prevent an emulsion. The ether is dried over sodium sulfate, filtered, and evaporated under nitrogen with no applied heat.

Crude psilocin will appear as a greenish residue. Recrystallization from chloroform/heptane (1:3) yields white crystals. The resulting powder can then be submitted to infrared and mass spectral analyses.

[darquedante]

US and other countries Pat Office is allways a good first step

Or just STFW

look for Snapshots of "The Hive" forum and Rhodium's Old site


give me a day and I will have about 20 articels or so for you its late so I'm not in the mood to go all sherlock holmes right now

[Jago]

waste of bloody time IMO, just dump the shrooms or make a tea :S
When you start trying to sell psilocybin n shit to junkies, they are gonna wonder what the fuck it is. But when you say shrooms, they will snap it up