SWIM did his first extraction yesterday and showed me some of the crystals in the heptane after freze precipitation. They were not many but nice. He said that after filtering and letting the solvent in the crystals evaporate it turned into a waxy mess and the crystaline structure turned into a oily stuff.
I pointed out maybe while in the solvent the DMT turned into the oxime form as it was evaporated in a too ventilated area and then the solvent was never fully evaporated so some got trapped in the crystals giving it a waxy/oily form.
So i was thinking, after freeze precipitating the product could it be dryed in a vacuum? If seen it in DMT synthesis in which the DMT was in ethyl acetate. Since ethyl acetate has a bp of 70 and nafta of 60 it should work. I doubt it does with heptane though.
Can someone verify if this could work?
Hope you are all safe. I am quarentined in Spain hope everyone is ok in the USA
Ps:
Can someone cite a paper in which it explains how dmt degrades due to light? I understand it changes to the oxide but what is the exact progress?