Introduction
You bought DMT, but the product has strange effects. Then you decided to figure out its composition. You open this article and use it as a guide for experimenting. The list of manipulations with DMT products, useful information for home tests and product brief are mentioned below.
Forms
N, N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT or N, N-DMT) is a substituted tryptamine that occurs in many plants and animals and which is both a derivative and a structural analog of tryptamine. It is used as a recreational psychedelic drug and prepared by various cultures for ritual purposes as an entheogen. DMT can be inhaled, ingested, or injected, and its effects depend on the dose, as well as the chosen mode of administration. When inhaled or injected, the effects last a short period of time: about five to 15 minutes. Effects can last three hours or more when orally ingested along with an MAOI, such as the ayahuasca brew of many native Amazonian tribes.
Pure DMT is a crystalline powder, either transparent in appearance or white to yellow-reddish in color. DMT is commonly handled and stored as a fumarate, as other DMT acid salts are extremely hygroscopic and will not readily crystallize. Its freebase form, although less stable than DMT fumarate, is favored by recreational users choosing to vaporize the chemical as it has a lower boiling point.
Pure DMT is a crystalline powder, either transparent in appearance or white to yellow-reddish in color. DMT is commonly handled and stored as a fumarate, as other DMT acid salts are extremely hygroscopic and will not readily crystallize. Its freebase form, although less stable than DMT fumarate, is favored by recreational users choosing to vaporize the chemical as it has a lower boiling point.
The most popular admixtures and adulterants of DMT
DMT is sold, such as free base and more stable fumarate salt. Both may be polluted by synthesis side products, such as 2-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-B-carboline and DMT precursors: 3-methylquinoline, 2-(1H-Indol-3-yl)-N, N-dimethyl-2-oxoacetamide, oxalyl chloride (extremely rare). Street DMT may be substituted or admixtured by DMT, ketamine, lsd or DMT analogs from base tryptamines like MET and DPT, to four and five position substituted variants, such as 4-PO-DMT (psilocybin), 4-AcO-DMT (psilacetin), 5-HO-DMT (bufotenin), and 5-MeO-DMT.
1. Firstly, you have to check your DMT sample with test reagents. No matter, which form of drug is tedted (salt or free base). Use «Drugs testing reagents». These methods help to determine kind of admixtures. There are manuals, which are described checking method procedures and meaning, where you can find methods of reagent synthesis. According to data from testing reagent experiments, you may compare and approve result by TLC (step 3).
Reagents can be divided into primary and secondary to check DMT. Primary reagents react with the expected substance, while secondary produce a vibrant color change with an adulterant. Here are a few keynotes:
1. Firstly, you have to check your DMT sample with test reagents. No matter, which form of drug is tedted (salt or free base). Use «Drugs testing reagents». These methods help to determine kind of admixtures. There are manuals, which are described checking method procedures and meaning, where you can find methods of reagent synthesis. According to data from testing reagent experiments, you may compare and approve result by TLC (step 3).
Reagents can be divided into primary and secondary to check DMT. Primary reagents react with the expected substance, while secondary produce a vibrant color change with an adulterant. Here are a few keynotes:
- Ehrlich – primary test for all indoles, e.g. tryptamines and lysergamides but also 5-HTP and more;
- Hofmann – primary test for tryptamines and lysergamides, more precise but slower than Ehrlich;
- Marquis – primary test for most powders, secondary test for blotters, cocaine, ketamine and mephedrone;
- Mecke – primary test for most powders, secondary test for blotters, ketamine, mephedrone.
Ehrlich reagent is the main test for DMT and produces a strong pink/purple color change with all indoles, such as DMT or LSD. Hofmann reagent is the recommended follow-up primary test to narrow it down and confirm the presence of DMT over 5-MeO-DMT or 5-HTP. Marquis, Mecke or other reagent tests are useful for an even further confirmation.
DMT reagent tests results for Ehrlich, Hofmann, Marquis and Mecke
If primary reagents did not react with your sample, try secondary reagents. Secondary reagents produce a vibrant color change with an adulterant, but not with the expected substance.
Secondary reagent tests:
- Simon’s reagent can confirm secondary amines (meth, MDMA, x-MMC, or PMMA);
- Robadope reagent can confirm primary amines (amphetamine, MDA, 2C-x or PMA);
- Zimmermann reagent can detect secondary (4-MMC derrivatives) and tertiary (a-PVP analogs) cathinones.
2. Secondly, confirm the admixtured drugs by LF tests (drug testing kits). You will receive clear result about admixtured narcotic substance(s) (if it takes place to be). Also, check your substance for narcotic admixtures, which were revealed in previous step with helps of color reactions.
3. Thirdly, provide a TLC test. For instance, you have received a test result with Ehrlich reagent of LSD, which gave purple color. After, you added few drops of Hofmann reagent and the color of drops changes to blue color. This result confirms the previous. Take TLC plate, polluted sample of DMT, real clear DMT, clear LSD (if you have), make three spots of substances and elute them, count Rf and compare results with the literature data. If your methadone sample spots will split in two or more parts, which will have the same level of LSD and clear DMT, it means that your sample has LSD contamination. You may provide this experiment with other substances.
Conclusion
Melting point verification can be added to the first step to confirm quality compliance and to determine the degree of impurity content. In the case of DMT, the «Drugs testing reagents» method is most useful because helps to quickly identify pollutants. The best ways to determine pollutants of DMT crystals are GC-MS or LC-MS analysis. However, this manual allows to identify most number of methadone impurities and approve results by different methods.
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