Welcome liveline!
I hail to no chemistry experience, save watching flame change color with different elements in 7th grade
. I've recently finished my first test extraction using Cyb's Hybrid tek. You'll find that when it comes to instructions, many of the most popular and seemingly most successful are written in incredibly simplistic form. As I talk with other DMT explorers that I know personally from outside the Nexus, they quickly grasp the concepts of acids, bases, etc. I recommend starting small. Cyb's tek calls for 50g of Acacia root bark (personally I used Acacia Confusa). After a few weeks of scratching my head and questioning my level of skill lol, I was able to acquire some beautiful yellow crystals, that sent a buddy and me on a great journey of machine elves.
There's a lot that you can learn here, you've come to the right place!
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Ghandi