AFOAF has extracted LSA loads of times, though he always gets some sort of off brown/oily mixture. Its obviously not LA-111, ergine, LSA, Lysergic acid amide, whatever you want to call it.

So he wants to know the best way to extract the LAS in the purest form? To be able to snort/put in pills.

He was thinking something like... an acid to base extraction.

He just needs to know if the LSA will convert into a salt/freebase with exposed to different pH's and what solvents will extract it, without extracting the other chemicals/fats/oils/poisons.

Does anyone know the information of the affects of pH change on LSA? Or a good method to extract LSA crystal?

He knows some chemistry, but he isn't that experienced.

Use HBWR, and UTFSE.

What is it you have tried?
Have you found the concentrations of LSA and figured how many mgs of LSA there is going to be in pounds of morning glory seeds?

You just posted a thread on diethylamine, so you would have to blind not to see where this is going. If you want a sample clean enough to do what you want to do (cyrstals as you put it). You are going to have to go here http://www.chem.ubc.ca/courseware/121/tutorials/exp3A/columnchrom/ scroll down to the technique part and watch the technique tutorial slideshow, you will need that technique with a bigger column though, obviously first you would make a crude extract the brown oily mixture you talk of but as clean as you can get it then run it through a column. If you had access to gas, flash chromatography through a suitably sized column would get through the sample in no time. You may want to run a sample run through first with UV light on it, to show you where your bands are. Then in future you will know where the good stuff comes out.

Agent madhatter, we can't spoon feed you everything you need.  You'll find plenty of info on column, TLC and various other methods of chromatography through a simple search of google.  The equipment can be found in the same manner.  As suggested by previous members, I'd like to recommend Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds, as opposed to morning glory seeds.  Much cheaper per mg of desired amine.  I actually found a gas chromatography unit at my local American science and surplus.  Sadly the machine was trashed, but it was only 10 bucks.  If I felt like spending 10 bucks, I could have fixed with possibly another 10 bucks.  Oh well.

It forms a hydrate.  Being a carboxylic acid, it also forms salts of various bases.  pH values? I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to bet it follows the typical pH range for bases vs acids.  Above 7 and it forms a salt, below 7 and it stays it's acid form. For chromatography supplies, like I said, search google real quick.  Might I also suggest places like www.sciencelab.com, or www.unitedglasstech.com

Google

Really? Because now I am starting to think your a fucking idiot because a google search for Lysergic acid amide and solubility pulled up a shitload of hits and a few of them look pretty useful. Refinement of that search could very well give you the exact data charts your looking for. If your having problems look for more scientific sites instead of drug synthesis websites because 9 times out of 10 there is no real data on them.

I was giving you a way to research on your own, I said google and you got ignorent, WTF.

Also, from a powerpoint I have from Berkley I've found out that Salts of carboxylic acids are more soluble in H2O than the freebase form, so with this I assume making the mixture of LSA compounds more acidic would mean that LSA would be almost insoluble in Water. While the other chemicals would be less soluble but still somewhat soluble. So with this theory, say dropping the pH to 2, using a 14% HCL solution would increase insolubility for LSA and also remove the alkaloids? At that point, I filter off the HCL solution/Alkaloids and dry the left over lysergic acid amide with Ethanol and MgSO4?

Possible?

Google Helps alot with a little patiants to seperate the wheat from the shaft sadly I agree in recent years there is alot more shaft when it comes to search engines. In this case that may not be needed. Lysergic acid derivitives have been studied by legit science for quite some time and all the information on solubility will be out there somewhere. Sites such as Erowid and rhodiums exist because of folks like you and me searching our little fingers to the bone to present the information in a well formated way so that it will be easy for all to understand

IIRC they are soluble to some extent in water so best to research some more before having at it. Always save every phase until your sure your baby isn't being chucked out with the bath water.

Many of the better resources you will find may require access but never fear because some members can retrieve them if you ask nicely in the proper threed in the reference section.