The Hive => Novel Discourse => Topic started by: thermite on May 10, 2000, 04:52:00 AM
Title: Hoja Santa
Post by: thermite on May 10, 2000, 04:52:00 AM
Since the old board is down and cannot presently been searched...in Total synth II there was a brief mention of the plant hoja santa as a possible source for safrole. Does anybody have any experience with it? The only experience I have is steaming fish in the leaves, although tasty not very informative. I really was not sure where to post this so be kind if you can. Any thoughtful comment is greatly appreciated. BTW this stuff grows like crazy and spreads perniciously.
Title: Re: Hoja Santa
Post by: Antibody2 on May 11, 2000, 08:08:00 PM
What climate do these babies grow in? Are they a perenial or a annual?
I imagine they could be refluxed with ethanol or methanol even DCM for extraction then simply distill results keeping the fraction boiling at 232C.
Also known as antibody
Title: Re: Hoja Santa
Post by: thermite on May 11, 2000, 08:32:00 PM