Seeing as phenethylamines are so difficult to synthesize I've started to think about tryptamines...
Anyways, my most recent idea:
React melatonin tablets with hydrochloric acid to give the hydrochloride salt
Filter the slurry to try to extract the melatonin hydrochloride
Add NaOH to neutralize the hydrochloride salt and deacetylate melatonin:
(n-COCH3 5-methoxy tryptamine + NaOH > Na-CH3COOH + 5-methoxy tryptamine)
Put it in isopropyl alcohol and add 2 moles methyl iodide for every mole 5-methoxy tryptamine
To theoretically make freebase 5-Meo-DMT
Would that theoretically work?
Edit: Also, another thing I can't understand: here (http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/tihkal/tihkal06.shtml) in tihkal, after reacting methyl iodide with tryptamine he only gets a little dmt with some weird "N,N,N-trimethyltryptammonium iodide". How come? I can't even imagine what that even is.
Anyways, my most recent idea:
React melatonin tablets with hydrochloric acid to give the hydrochloride salt
Filter the slurry to try to extract the melatonin hydrochloride
Add NaOH to neutralize the hydrochloride salt and deacetylate melatonin:
(n-COCH3 5-methoxy tryptamine + NaOH > Na-CH3COOH + 5-methoxy tryptamine)
Put it in isopropyl alcohol and add 2 moles methyl iodide for every mole 5-methoxy tryptamine
To theoretically make freebase 5-Meo-DMT
Would that theoretically work?
Edit: Also, another thing I can't understand: here (http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/tihkal/tihkal06.shtml) in tihkal, after reacting methyl iodide with tryptamine he only gets a little dmt with some weird "N,N,N-trimethyltryptammonium iodide". How come? I can't even imagine what that even is.