Ought to work - I've read many mescaline extraction teks that use it. You can get high purity citric acid online too if you want... I think the kind of citric acid you find in the kosher section of some grocery stores is fairly high purity as well (it's usually called "kosher salt"
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The only problem is that it's highly soluble in water, and I think it's easy to accidentally add far more moles of citric acid than there are moles of alkaloid in your non-polar extract - leading to a relatively impure product after evaporation, and making it hard to estimate dosages by weight.
NB: I have never tried this and should not be considered an authority on the matter.
benzyme wrote:
i'm tellin ya, one day i'll interface a mass spec and uv-vis spectrophotometer to a modular synthesizer