don
t waster your time get it from parsely
i digress a little here 2,5 dimetoxy 3,4 dimethyleneoxy amphetamione )also made from parsely is one of the best of the best know substituted amphetammines and it is perfectly legal why would you waste you time with this?
just dump and ass ton in the market in 2 years later the government catchges on and ban it.
and believe me they are that slow.

look this book , pg 127

     Hey Misgnomer if you are really interested in obtaining essential oils from natural resources such as plants,without spending big bucks on trick lab glassware and things like sohxlets,  you must read up on steam distillation, which is basically grinding up the plant you want to extract and boiling it with water, and then collecting the steam which 'carries over' the oils and which will float to the top when the mix is left standing for a while, and can then be easily seperated

   To then get the myristicin from the oil you steam distilled, you now need to 'fractionally' distill this oil where the different compounds in the oil will boil and 'come over' at (usually) at different enough temperatures to make them fairly easy to seperate

  Its the way to go with almost all plant oils. Sure solvents can often be used, and are sometimes prefered for a variety of reasons but this is a simple and effective tried and true method is especially good if you have a lot of plant material to start with, and even if you dont, with good methods and practice it can be almost as good as any other extraction methods

   In fact I started a steam distillation thread just the other day in this very section which goes into some more detail

                      http://127.0.0.1/talk/index.php/topic,3043.0.html

     enjoy f1 

One thing you need to be aware of is that doing a steam distillation as described will only work on small qtys or very large qtys like 55 gallon drums.  You need 3:1 water/spice in your flask or need to add more water as you progress.   I had a vague recollection of some of the components being heat sensitive and was feeling too lazy to do the research so used the acetone as being a safe way to do it since the temps never get very high.  External steam sources can be more dangerous to play with but are more effective IMO.

I'm somewhat surprised by some of the data I'm seeing on these compounds, apiole & dillapiol have boiling points near 300.  Data properties sheet is in progress - amazing how difficult it can be to find some of this stuff.



Salat

A mistake made you can avoid - be careful how much water you use.  Especially if you are working with very small qty's.  Some compounds can azeotrope with water. 

For example if you accidentally get a mixture of 92.3% water and 6.7% safrole you will get an azeotrope and extraction is your only hope although I had really weird things happen to me with I tried.   

Attached is the pages covering water in a book of azeotropes.  Safrole and isosafrole are on the 3rd page.

Like when you grab the toluene and try to extract it that way and there's NO separation in the sep funnel and you go WTF!   

yeah I know those daze 

fresh couldn't figure out how to read those charts you posted  

Azeotropes can be a pain.  Normally f1 won't bother trying to recover  amounts so small he cant see them   

Seriously. I've had to develope a fine sense of when the 'returns diminish' to the point of not being worth the effort,

 although sometimes when I have SFA to do and I want to play I wish I had just kept that smelly water for a rainy day     

Aside from tolly what other solvents have you tried to extract you oils from the water?

 Particularly with our 'favorite' sassy allybenzenes

thanx baba it's the thought that counts,  but my russian language skills are non existant 

thanx baba it's the thought that counts,  but my russian language skills are non existant 

It would seem that the site itself is Russian but the thread linked is english.. Plethora of information in the thread, well worth the annoying babble-text alongside the abc's XD