Hey guys sorry I've been out of commission for so long. My laptop got wrecked about a month ago and that made making new videos difficult. I got my old laptop working and all of the new software is installed on it so I'm hoping this will do for the time being. I still need to get the fans replaced. All of the dust out here in the lab has killed them over the years. 

A little something for my loyal subscribe star supporters. You guys are fucking amazing. Now you kids behave yourselves. This is merely posted for your academic edification. The prep comes from a paper on optimizing the synthesis and characterization of DMT by reductive amination using a GC-ITMS analysis. The paper is called Characterization of the Synthesis of DMT by Reductive Amination Using Gas Chromatography Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry. The second part comes from the United Nations Bulletin on Narcotics on a webpage called Analytical Separations of Mixtures of Hallucinogenic Drugs. It's available online. 

I compiled all of this information myself. The DMT prep is the highest yield one from the paper and should give yields around 75-78%. Purification afterwards is probably required since it produced some weird nitrile compounds that probably don't occur in nature and if they do I can't find any literature on them or what they do to humans. Be careful here. They could cause brain damage for all I know. Not to mention that doing this prep is probably wildly illegal to do pretty much everywhere but Antarctica or the Moon. Again I post this merely for your intellectual edification. Be good. ;-)

Synthesis of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine By Reductive Amination

TLC Analysis of The Common Tryptamine Hallucinogens

Holy sheep shit, ladies and gentlemen, I think I just figured out a way to deal with the copious amounts of HCN gas needed to make pure TlCN solution. TlCN can be precipitated from a solution of thallous nitrate by addition of aqueous potassium cyanide but the yield sucks. TlCN is NOT all that insoluble despite the way the literature reads. 100 grams of water dissolves 8.67 grams at 0°C, 15.17 grams at 14°C, and 29.57 grams at 31°C. The other way to make TlCN is to bubble HCN through a solution of TlOH. This reaction has to be done way back away from the house but up until now I've had serious concerns about going near it to adjust anything and especially breaking down the apparatus. HCN is lighter than air but not by a whole lot so I would imagine that it rises slowly. That gives me pause. But apparently this whole problem can be solved quite easily by simply breathing through a very long garden hose whose far end is way way away on the other side of the property. So long as I breathe in through my mouth and out through my nose I think it will work. I should stress this is only to buy me enough time to make whatever adjustment needs to be made or to open the apparatus to degas at the end. Sure in principle this should work perfectly. In practice having tried something similar already in the past I know its not quite that easy. But I think I can pull it off. Obviously don't try this at home kids. 

Seriously Atomistry?

Damn it. I am out of both aqueous ammonia and nitric acid. I can make up a batch on one tonight and a batch of the other tomorrow. But it's supposed to piss rain for the next two days. I was going to do diamminedichloropalladium(II). I still might. I would just need to bubble some of the NH3 from the ammonia generator through the suspension of PdCl2. It makes a dark tan precipitate in water. Atomistry describes it as a "flesh colored precipitate". While it is indeed what anyone today would call a flesh tone I'm not sure if someone in Europe a century ago (which is when and where I think the source material comes from) would call it "flesh colored". I'm not saying it's "muh systemic racism" or anything like that. I'm just saying that people looked at things differently a century ago and I'm trying to put myself in their heads. Anyways we could go a different way with this and make up palladous sulfide PdS, filter it, dry it, and then fuse it with 12 parts KOH and 12 parts S powder to make potassium thiopalladite K2Pd3S4. I have more than enough fuel for an H2S generator. Either way I have to set up a gas generator.  

The next organic video will be out within the next week. I'd also like to do a short video on the oxythallation reaction since it's such a neat trick. The next prep video will be the diammoniate of palladium(II) chloride PdCl2(NH3)2. After that I want to do a prep of palladous sulfide and from that make potassium thiopalladite K2Pd3S4 which is supposed to be a violet-blue turning gray when it dries. That sounds pretty neat. Not sure what we will do with the diammoniate. Maybe use it to make bis(acetonitrile) palladium(II) chloride if possible. It would finally give me something useful to do with all this ACN. 

This is how I will make the diammoniate. This comes from the Atomistry page for palladium dichloride. "When palladium dichloride is dissolved in water, and ammonia added in sufficient excess to dissolve the flesh-coloured precipitate, the diammoniate, PdCl2.2NH3, may be obtained as a precipitate by diluting with a large volume of water and acidulating with hydrochloric acid. It may be dried at 110° to 120° C., and has been used for the determination of the atomic weight of palladium. Density 2.5."