There is a need to have a thread requesting for translating articles to a language our members may need in order to consume the contents of the studies in question. So please include the article, in an attachment,  needing translating and the parts needed of the article.....so if you can assist translating please lend yourself....java

any german readers? I have an article somewhere in german on elmecin>mescaline via o3 that I would love the details on...

I attached a truncated version of this reference with only the interesting information included.  Any german readers out there? I am dying to understand this article.

I assume there is no need anymore for a translation of that elemicin thing?

I recently noticed that the elemicin article was posted more than a month after I asked for it.  I posted links to a number of ozone references including ozonation of safrole and conversion to an oxime.  No one said anything so I thought they lost interest.  My posts were moved to the references thread.  I read over a lot of the references and it looks like a lot of work.  Essential oils with high levels of elemicin aren't too common, either.

When your german skills are limited, dont bother around trying to translate! Im gonna sit down on my ass now and go translate that stuff starting from where you ended. But really dont bother around with it, german is my first language so this wont be more than a piece of cake to translate for me.

(I have to explain something! the schüttel-ente is a hydrogenation device, literally
translated it would say shakey-duck. In general, it is similiar to a parr shaker except without using liquified gasses or over-pressure. But i dont know what is it called in english)

The reaction was run for 15 hours, which corresponds to 125% ozone.

The hydrogenation
0,6g of 5% palladiumhydroxid containing PdCaCO3-catalyst prepared according to busch and stöve were charged into a shaking flask together with 20-30cm³ethyl acetate, the air was replaced with hydrogen and the hydrogenation wasrun until the catalyst turned black. Then the ozonide-solution was sucked into the freshly prepared shaking flask and immediately hydrogenated. Absorption is usually done in 5-7 hours for 31,2g elemicin-ozonide, which will release so much exothermic heat that the shaking flask has to be cooled through application of wet towels around it.
When the hydrogenation is done, the catalyst was filtered off, and the ethyl acetate solution together with 40ml bisulfite solution (technical purity) was poured in a bottle, sealed and shaken, then left for at least 24 hours with some shaking sometimes.
The white leaflets of bisulfite-adduct were filtered off and washed two times with ethyl acetate then left to dry on clay. Yield was 33,7g (=72%).
The filtrate then was extracted in a separatory funnel three times using concentrated sodium carbonate solution, and then was dried over calcium chlthe ethyl acetate solution has evaporated. This oil after beeing fractionated in vacuum, contained 2,5 to 4g elemicin (7-13%) and some higher boiling oils. The sodium carbonate solution can after made acidic, be extracted an additional three times using diethylether, that after being dried, was evoporated to give the corresponding acid that crystallizes into brownish needles after prolonged standing. The yield was variable but never exceeded 2,2g (=7%). Considered the recycled elemicine, the yield of aldehyde was an average of 80-85%.

Characterization of the Aldehyde
Semicarbazone: an alcoholic solution of semicarbazide was poured to 1/9 of the hydrogenated ozonide solution prepared as above (so it couldnt contain more than maximal 1/60 mol of aldehyde) in a bottle, sealed and left for six days. Scratching it often with a glass rod will induce crystallization. Yielded 2.9 gram semicarbazone, which were sucked off, washed with alcohol, having a melting point 115-125°C, with rose after recrystallising twice in water to a melting point of constantly 191°C.

Oxime: 12.3g bisulfit compound were suspended in a cold saturated solution of hydroxylamine-hcl, afterwards a saturated solution prepared from 11g sodium carbonate is added. Over night 8,3g (93%) of raw oxime were obtained crystallised in ball-shaped aggregates. They were washed using dichlormethane to remove inorganic impurities. The remaining 6,8g (77%) oxime crystallized slowly but complete after a seeding crystal was added. It was found to be pure enough for further processing, but to obtain an even higher quality it was distilled twice in a high vacuum, having then the melting point 67°C

This is what i got now, will add more later

Thanks, Carl.  It says in the article that reduction of the oxime gives poor yields, so they convert it into a nitrile and reduce that to the amine.

Here's a related link.  Notice that sodium dithionite is used as the reducing agent.
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?action=printable&fid=10&tid=3621

im not sure if i got what you meant there because im really wasted right now...
there is some confusion about "gas geben" in general it has two meanings, the usual is just speeding up a car, its nearly never used in the meaning of giving gas.
also "ausspucken" is in my opinion not the preferred term, i would use "ausströmen", more in the meaning flow out.

but you have to apologize i am actually very unsure what you mean... i still feel like the first fish who conquered land since i smoked dmt at the beach laying in the shallow water few hours ago