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.
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
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This company sells it. The latin name is piper auritum. Do a search on the web.