This is the first time i see capsaicin crystalls on youtube. Congradulations. Others extracted some red goo. Nile red was very close to this when he made capsaicinoid and purified it with 10% potassium hydroxide. Try scale it up, its much easier to recrystallize bigger amount of crystalls.
Regarding the gloves, I learned my lesson after I deseeded fresh chillies for chutney one day, and during the night wondered if that's what having rheumatism while burning at the stake feels like 🥵
If you're getting the 10% capsaicin figure by using the 1.6M scoville nominal figure for Carolina Reapers, it's worth pointing out that figure is felt to be optimistic. Chilli breeders have an incentive to send multiple samples for testing and cherry pick the highest ones. Commercial samples of Carolina Reaper test around 1M. Your yield was probably slightly better than 6.9%.
I didnt get one thing. When you evaporated Ethylacetate you added then 10% NaOH and left it on 4 hours. Have you filtered the solution before adjusting the ph to 7? You should have cotton filtered the solution because when you added NaOH you converted capsaicin into its sodium salt that is water soluble, all impurities like carotinoids will remain on cotton as they are not water soluble. Then you have clear alkiline water solution that contain mostly capsaicin, acidify it to pH 7 and get crystalls of capsaicin.
Although the procedure I was following didn't mention that, I probably should have tried that. But I have a prediction, that it wouldn't have helped much. The main carotenoid in paprika is capsanthin, and it has hydroxy groups, which I think would had reacted with the base, turning it into a salt as well. I could be wrong though - not a chemist after all :)
Ninjachemist, even though I work with energetics professionally I’ve loved your videos since I found your channel. Is there any specific reason why you stopped, and any way you can make more? I was really impressed with your tmdd smoke screen video. Not many people have the guts to try that, let alone hold it in their hand no matter how much information says it’s reasonably safe.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 youtube banned me again and again and i stopped. I quit my career of professional chemist and switched to software development. Sometimes I still work with energetics but nothing cool and great, that could become an interesting video.
This is the first time i see capsaicin crystalls on youtube. Congradulations. Others extracted some red goo. Nile red was very close to this when he made capsaicinoid and purified it with 10% potassium hydroxide. Try scale it up, its much easier to recrystallize bigger amount of crystalls.
"Now... It's a syphon, it's a toilet" 😂
For a non chemist you have a lot of chemistry glassware and knowledge though 👌
I blame the Internet. You can probably find anything you want, if you care enough to search :D
"104mg is an...amount" 😂 that made it me laugh. Well done either way, great video! 👏👏👏
This was awesome, refreshing, great to see a new channel and new person doing it. Show us what you REALLY want to do!! ❤
Thank you! W-what a lovely comment, really!
@@Nota_Chemist you are very welcome. I do hope to see more experiments in chemistry. You took us on a decent journey.
Ramblings of a mad man indeed! Nice vid
"Which is... an amount..." 😂
Yay, yellow chemistry!! 🎉
Congrats on the recrystallization!!!
Very fun I like your style
Cough-inducing powder indeed! I'm delighted you started with Carolina Reapers - and that you used gloves. Ha ha!
Regarding the gloves, I learned my lesson after I deseeded fresh chillies for chutney one day, and during the night wondered if that's what having rheumatism while burning at the stake feels like 🥵
Love it! Good stuff!
If you're getting the 10% capsaicin figure by using the 1.6M scoville nominal figure for Carolina Reapers, it's worth pointing out that figure is felt to be optimistic. Chilli breeders have an incentive to send multiple samples for testing and cherry pick the highest ones. Commercial samples of Carolina Reaper test around 1M. Your yield was probably slightly better than 6.9%.
This was fun thanks
your like extractions and ire/explostions and fire guy except with clean glassware lol
Nice one. I will continue to avoid anything spicy as it comes out as hot as it goes in
"I had to drink spicy coffee for a week after this" ahahah
yet with a sufficiently low quantity of capsaicin, coffee is not too bad iirc ;)
True, I'd imagine if you get it right, you could have something as nice as spicy dark chocolate :)
@@Nota_Chemist yess, but avoid gasoline in coffee 😅
@@fmdj why? thats my morning drink for the days get up and go
I didnt get one thing. When you evaporated Ethylacetate you added then 10% NaOH and left it on 4 hours. Have you filtered the solution before adjusting the ph to 7? You should have cotton filtered the solution because when you added NaOH you converted capsaicin into its sodium salt that is water soluble, all impurities like carotinoids will remain on cotton as they are not water soluble. Then you have clear alkiline water solution that contain mostly capsaicin, acidify it to pH 7 and get crystalls of capsaicin.
Although the procedure I was following didn't mention that, I probably should have tried that. But I have a prediction, that it wouldn't have helped much. The main carotenoid in paprika is capsanthin, and it has hydroxy groups, which I think would had reacted with the base, turning it into a salt as well. I could be wrong though - not a chemist after all :)
@@Nota_Chemist it has hydroxy groups but they are not phenols and cannot give salt with 10% NaOH they require stronger bases like sodium methylate
Ninjachemist, even though I work with energetics professionally I’ve loved your videos since I found your channel. Is there any specific reason why you stopped, and any way you can make more? I was really impressed with your tmdd smoke screen video. Not many people have the guts to try that, let alone hold it in their hand no matter how much information says it’s reasonably safe.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 youtube banned me again and again and i stopped. I quit my career of professional chemist and switched to software development. Sometimes I still work with energetics but nothing cool and great, that could become an interesting video.
Yellow chemistry spares no one
This guy is in Russia -' guud guud guud'
Not noice 😅