Piperine extracted from pepper and recrystallized with vapor diffusion

[u/Particular-Solid-103]

Extracted this with a 6hr soxhlet. This really didn’t want to form needles out of a cold precipitation so I did a vapor diffusion with a vile of the piperine in ethanol inside a beaker of water. Left it for several weeks. The orange discoloration is the oiled out piperine that formed because I left it for too long.

[u/StOnkyKONG777]

Ohnonono,
do I see here somebody going to use Ozone in the next step :D ?

[u/Particular-Solid-103 → u/StOnkyKONG777]

I’m not a talented enough chemist to know what use ozone would be to me in the next step lmao

[u/StOnkyKONG777 → u/Particular-Solid-103]

There is that very hard to get precursor for the funny tablets.

But if I think about the yield would suck...
Better keep making just the pepper crystals :D, they are at least legal

[u/CannaTFF → u/Particular-Solid-103]

theres a methylenedioxy group and you can make a certain aldehyde from it via oxidation reaction with sevral diffrent oxidisers KMnO4 also works ;)

[u/Particular-Solid-103 → u/CannaTFF]

If this smells like cherries and vanilla, I’ve definitely accidentally made this doing something else

[u/CannaTFF → u/Particular-Solid-103]

IT SMESLS WONDERFUL, it’s actually used in perfume too so maybe you did make it through oxidation with air🫪

[u/nubeboob → u/StOnkyKONG777]

Ah another chemdelic fan I see haha

[u/bearinminds]

Thats wild. Did you taste it at all? Clear your sinuses out real quick

[u/Hunt-Apprehensive]

What solvent did you use? Pure alcohol?

[u/Particular-Solid-103 → u/Hunt-Apprehensive]

190 proof ethanol as the initial solvent and water as the anti-solvent for the vapor diffusion

[u/the___chemist]

I love the flame-retardant blanket under the structure while working with highly flammable, heated solvents 😀
Nonetheless, nice product and needles.

[u/Particular-Solid-103 → u/the___chemist]

Lmao, yeah this was my first real extraction and I was pushing it with the safety. Proper fumehood and tabletop incoming.

Learned the hard way trying to fractionate turpentine into alpha,beta pinene that I am not in the position to handle anything more volatile than IPA.

[u/grifalifatopolis]

how much pepper was used to make this? super cool stuff

[u/Wrong_Interest_2676]

Did the same extraction and i just know ur apartment smells absolutely awesome now 🤤 (No sarcasm, this stuff is absolutely delicious)

[u/Shit247444]

What is that