and it smells disagreeable too.
Disagreeable? And I thought you said that you liked to smell and taste your chemicals. When the wife and I go to the local home improvement megastore I let her go look at the live plants while I get off sniffing the pesticides.
Post 208020 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=12930.msg20802000#msg20802000)
(Lilienthal: "You can't dimethylate tryptamines with MeI or DMS", Tryptamine Chemistry). I would advise you to use NaBH3CN reductive amination instead:https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/dmtsyn.txt (https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/dmtsyn.txt)
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