I was reading about column chromatography and electrophoresis. Both are very interesting and commonly used techniques in the lab. I was wondering if anybody tried to use one of these techniques for the extraction of plant alkaloids, such as mescaline.
The difficult part would be analyzing whether a fraction obtained from the column is, in fact, mescaline. I guess that this would be difficult to do at home.
On the other hand, as far as I know, electrophoresis is not used for extraction, but instead for qualitative analysis of solutes.

Anyway, has anybody tried one of these techniques? With or without success.

isn't there already a thread about this?

these are not extraction techniques; they are separation techniques, which can be used in preparative or analytical applications.

It's exciting tech.
I posted a similar thread, here's the original post:


Now I'm wondering if some form of electrophoresis or other analytical separation techniques could be applied to the phalaris grass. Perhaps there is a way to avoid using the Xanthydrol reagent as would be done with TLC to distinguish between nn and 5me0.