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Yep. In O-chem lab many years ago one of the first things we did was "alkaloid extraction", where we pulled caffeine from tea bags, which was a yellow, clumpy p
by scrame 9y ago
Yep. In O-chem lab many years ago one of the first things we did was "alkaloid extraction", where we pulled caffeine from tea bags, which was a yellow, clumpy powder, which we then washed out the impurities and it was a clean white crystal. Caffeine is in the same family as meth, and the process is similar.
The teacher joked that she used to teach in San Bernardino and there were a lot of chemicals that the department never had to buy because the police would turn it over after raiding meth labs.
- vzcx 9y ago> Caffeine is in the same family as meth If by family you mean CNS stimulant with an amino group, then yes, I guess? They are very different structurally and pharmacologically. A synthesis of methamphetamine would not look very much at all like an alkaloid extraction, except, possibly, for the final workup and isolation of the salt.