I've spent the better part of the evening crawling accross the literature, looking to find this gem of a study, and would like to share the full text with my peers (this is the ONLY official study into the alkaloid content of A. Simplex, and is the first documentation of N-Formyldimethyltryptamine in the scientific literature); Shulgin, Schultes, Trout and Ott, among many other authors always allude to this rather crude and superficial analysis (done in 1976).

It has been 41 years since this single study emerged, and has since remained uncontested and/or revised via modern methods of analytical chemistry. I would like to know if anyone on the forum boards with access to high-grade analytic chemistry machinery (e.g. HPLC, fluroscopy, LC-MS, GC-MS, tandem GC-MS/MS, H1/C13/any kind of NMR, immuhistochemistry in order to detect potential MAO-inhibitory properties in never-analyzed regions, etc. etc.); if anyone with access to such analytical techniques is interested in analyzing various regions of acacia simplex, the time is NOW.

I hope this full text helps,
-Godsmacker

I am currently collaborating with analytical chemists in my locale to update the literature concerning the phytochemical content of A. Simplex (with the contents of seeds & seed pods included), and will update this thread with whatever data this investigation yields.

I'm growing some seedlings at the moment (N. Caledonia variety). Some patchy data available at the (that is mostly shared by the enthusiast nexians after their attempt of extractions) is definitely insufficient, yet suggesting of a very high alkaloid content. This specie is of a great interest as alkaloid source and more info is needed.

Godsmacker, just want to say that your efforts are very much appreciated.