Hello,
God, I especially need your help.
SWIM attempted to extract DMT from 118.0g of Mimosa Hostilis root bark using the standard A/B extraction method. This is what swim did.
1) Ground up 118g rootbark until it was a mostly fine powder and some stringy plant material.
2) Added the rootbark to the jar and added 500mL of 5% HCl solution and let it soak for 48hrs.
3) Filtered via buchner funnel and returned the rootbark for further extraction
4) Extracted 2x more with 500mL 5% HCl by heating the jar to 50C for 1hour each, and filtered on the buchner.
5) Left swim with 2L of dark brown/red solution.
6) Defatted with 3 x 100mL naptha. Discarded Naptha layer via separatory funnel. (emulsion took several hours to clear)
7) Basified to pH 11 using Lab Grade KOH. (well the solution turned a dark grey color when swim stopped), while under strong magnetic stirring, 2 drops at a time.
Attempted to extract the DMT using 3 x 150mL Naptha. Stirred 2L of the basified solution with 150mL naptha 3x using a magnetic stir bar, and poured into a seperatory funnel, seperated the Naptha/emulsion layer and kept in a jar overnight until the emulsion layer phased into the bottom liquid layer.
9) Poured the Naptha combined extracts (about 450mL worth) onto a large pyrex dish and it fully evaporated with a fan in 8 hours.
There were no crystals, but about 10mg or less of a thin yellow film which wouldnt crystalize. Swim was confused big time and also very dissapointed.
What went wrong? Swim think he didnt basify strongly enough or extract with warm enough naptha(naptha used was room temp). Is that important to do?
Swim saved all solutions and rootbark. He reduced the basified solution to about 800mL and made the pH to about 2 again. He further extracted the rootbark with 1500mL of 5% HCl solution on the hotplate at 75C overnight to extract more goodies?
He plans to combine the extracts and earlier solution and reduce the volume to about 1000mL and extract with xylene. Will xylene work as well for the goodies? I know it works well to extract MDMA base, a bee would think its a better choice than naptha.
I really dont know what went wrong. My extraction procedures are usually really good, I have good technique and never throw out a liquid/solid until the extraction worked out.
Please help swim on why he didnt extract any DMT freebase the first time. Also, swim had about 50mL of an emulsion layer in a beaker and left the beaker to sit during the whole process (5 days) and when he looked in the beaker it all evaporated and there were some crystals about the size of salt grains, diamond shaped and flat. He suspected this might have been DMT, but why in the water solution? This was also water soluble. So did swim create DMT.HCl and not basified it strong enough?
So, so confusing, SWIM really wanted to try DMT.