both are quite caustic. if you get either in your eye, you're fuct.
as far as claims of higher yields...where is the data to support these claims?
a lab macaque used a similar procedure as Heavenly, last year, except he used xylene: he added vinegar to acidify to 4.18 and PC'd his green goop two times for 40 mins, basified to 12.86 with NaOH, extracted with xylene, added dilute sulfuric; fan-assisted evap, dissolved in hot 60:10 acetone:water, put it in the freezer. applied sonocrystallization and crashed out in the freezer (3X), vac filtered, rinsed with acetone then pet ether, redissolved in 60:10 acetone:water, crashed out and vac filtered a final time.
m.p. 184 - 187, tested with a T.H. Unimelt.
following a pH scale that corresponds to the pKa distribution of the microspecies in solution
is the difference between pulling mostly mescaline, and pulling a lot of other crap and risking
oxidation of your product at excessively high pH, doesn't matter which base you choose.
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