Since I am only in my first semester of college organic chemistry, this question may be completely ignorant. If it is, please delete this post, and I'll refrain from posting anything else until I'm more certain of my material.
I've read that bufotenine has severe body effects and is only a mild entheogen. Since bufotenine is extractible from A. columbrina, which is commercially availiable on the web (Iamshaman.com, for one), I've been thinking about ways to convert it into something more useful. 5Meo-DMT springs to mind.
I've used the search engine, and the only relevant posts have been sytheses from the ground up. I found one post by lego which contains the phrase:
The methylation of a 5-substituted tryptamine to a 5-substituted DMT with HCHO (formaldehyde) and NaBH4 (sodium borhydride)
Essentially, I'd want to replace that H on the 5-OH with a methyl group, correct? Is what I'm getting at even possible?