Talk:Anadenanthera colubrina/Archives/2020/May

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Some charlatan keeps editting the Anadenanthera articles to indicate that bufotenine reacts with calcium hydroxide to form "calcium bufotenate". This is a complete falsehood. The person responsible has also posted about the topic on messageboards, and created multiple fake accounts to "substantiate" his information. If you see this info re-posted, please delete it.

There is some indication that bufotenine undergoes a chemical change in the presence of calcium hydroxide, but it is known definitively that calcium bufotenate is too unstable a compound to be isolated. After treating pure freebase bufotenine with calcium hydroxide, all of the calcium hydroxide can be recovered; no calcium salt of bufotenin has been isolated. The bufotenine that was treated this way [i]does[/i] seem to have an activity profile distinct from bufotenin.

But it is not calcium bufotenate ("Ca-O-DMT"). That's someone's persistent crusade of misinformation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.170.56.109 (talk) 19:40, 18 July 2008 (UTC)