coverting DMT HCl to freebase

[i are spectre]

i just posted a quick and easy method to freebase DPT HCl, but i am wondering if that method would work with DMT HCl, i see no reason why it wouldnt, but id like to make sure.

DMT HCl + NaOH = DMT base + NaCl + H2O

it should work with almsot any tryptamine salt, at least if it has the hydrochloride with it, right?

[catchdog]

Are you talking about about 5-meo-dmt or N,N-DMT? If it's N,N-DMT I doubt SWIY has the HCl as it is reportedly very difficult to cystallize. According to TIHKAL:

"As to salts, this last recipe above, taken from the literature, is the only claim of a valid hydrochloride salt of DMT. In the original synthesis, by Manske, the following description appears. "The hydrochloride could be obtained only as a pale yellow resin which, when dried in a vacuum desiccator over potassium hydroxide, became porous and brittle." I have found no attempts at its synthesis in the literature, and I have personally had no success at all."

Of course, that doesn't mean it's impossible, but how sure is SWIY that what he as is the HCl?

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great reply, informative!!

[i are spectre]

no doubt in my mind it's DMT HCl q=0D

[CrookedEye]

By dissolving the HCl into water, then basifying it, one could remove the alkaloid with a nonpolar solvent and evaporate it to be left with the freebase.. That is the basis of an acid/base extraction..

[i are spectre]

acetone wouldnt work then because its a polar solvent? it would be nice to use since NaCl doesnt dissolve in it, but them DMT doesnt either? would have to use ethyl acetate, dichloromethane, or chloroform?

[CrookedEye]

Naphtha works and is easily available over the counter in most areas, or hexane, pentane, ether, etc..

[fatal]

there is a DMT forum you know...

[fastandbulbous]

I just posted a quick and easy method to freebase DPT HCl, but i am wondering if that method would work with DMT HCl, i see no reason why it wouldnt, but id like to make sure.

And I posted a simpler method that will work and is very quick and easy (look at the DPT thread as I'm too lazy to reproduce it here!)