Turning black pepper into piperonal cause it smells better

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  • Опубліковано 8 тра 2023
  • This long video focuses on first the extraction of black pepper (piperine), second piperine to piperinic acid, and lastly piperinic acid to piperonal. This was a fun video and took forever to do and edit. Enjoy!
    Note:
    No intent of further conversion to illicit substances
    Sources:
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    www.chemistrysteps.com/oxidat....
    archive.org/details/ChemPlayer
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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piperonal
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    • Black Pepper Extraction
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  • @That_Chemist
    @That_Chemist Рік тому +126

    21:00 btw sodium periodate does the diol cleavage

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому +20

      Interesting. I heard the KMnO4 would do it and the periodate might help or just not. Very interesting! Let me pin this for everyone to see! Thank you.

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist Рік тому +17

      @@chemdelic btw the more common version is Lemieux-Johnson oxidation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemieux%E2%80%93Johnson_oxidation

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist Рік тому +16

      it's the exact same idea, but OsO4 instead of KMnO4

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому +32

      I have heard of that one and looked into it. Then I looked into the cost and said nevermind 😂

    • @nosurprise885
      @nosurprise885 Рік тому +1

      I would quite like to see the kinetic of this reaction

  • @neffix6976
    @neffix6976 Рік тому +364

    The gigachad move would be:
    Making peperine from mdma

    • @TheBackyardChemist
      @TheBackyardChemist Рік тому +136

      there is is satirical chemistry paper about making pseudo from meth, as the latter is cheaper and easier to buy these days

    • @cacogenicist
      @cacogenicist Рік тому

      @@TheBackyardChemist - Until recently in Oregon, you couldn't get pseudoephedrine without a prescription. For some reason that didn't seem to deter Mexican drug cartels from producing plenty of meth for everyone.

    • @mateusfelipecota
      @mateusfelipecota Рік тому +13

      ​@@TheBackyardChemist do you have the name of the paper on hand?

    • @thatguy431
      @thatguy431 Рік тому +1

      dude. yes!

    • @thatguy431
      @thatguy431 Рік тому +13

      @@TheBackyardChemist google search for "satire paper making piperine from meth" just gave me meth recipes. and now im wanted by the feds
      would like to see that paper thogh sounds dope

  • @CptFishrPrice
    @CptFishrPrice Рік тому +488

    Are you going to turn the piperonal into mdma cause it parties better? Im excited for this one!!

    • @noblsht
      @noblsht Рік тому

      I thought I heard that word before somewhere OK I was thinking it was PCP but you're probably right MDMA, I think PCP is piperidine

    • @bcubed72
      @bcubed72 Рік тому +22

      Thought you needed sassafras tea to party like a rock star?

    • @KissMyConverseFool
      @KissMyConverseFool Рік тому +27

      this is for smells only sir

    • @codenamenel
      @codenamenel Рік тому +16

      @@bcubed72 piperonal works just the same, you can use vanillin as well an extract of vanilla

    • @Sniperboy5551
      @Sniperboy5551 Рік тому

      I was thinking the exact same thing

  • @7177YT
    @7177YT Рік тому +18

    That sweet sweet methylene dioxy bridge. Every time I see this structure bolted to a benze ring, I can't help but smile from ear to ear and nod to a faint memory of muffled techno. Cheers!

    • @vogelvogeltje
      @vogelvogeltje Рік тому +2

      How hilarious, I get the same feeling. I see the little bug eyes of the head and the body, and i get all giddy cause I know what could come of it 😂

    • @dalethomasdewitt
      @dalethomasdewitt Рік тому

      I once asked/glanced that ring to Dr. Popp. His steer was a di ether.

  • @m.i.c.h.o
    @m.i.c.h.o Рік тому +74

    “No intent of further conversion into illicit substances” sure thing bud 😉

  • @TagetesAlkesta
    @TagetesAlkesta Рік тому +49

    Ahh yes piperonal. Very interesting structure with some very interesting uses!

    • @theta3404
      @theta3404 16 днів тому +1

      Our beloved 3,4-MDBA

  • @divbrho_m7904
    @divbrho_m7904 Рік тому +47

    SWIM once made piperonal by dumping piperine into a jar with acetone and a little water, then blasting the solution inside said jar with ozone (about 800mg O3 per gram of piperonal). Afterwards he added ether, decomposed the solution by addition of water, seperated the ether layer, evaporated the ether layer and was left with an amber gooey substance with an incredibly seductive smell.
    The yields were around 40% by mass however he never bothered with recrystallization as he used the goo directly for further fragrance manufacture.

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому +16

      I did this just recently! I had a fair amount of product too.

    • @kirahund6711
      @kirahund6711 Рік тому +14

      Say hi to SWIM.. we know him/her well.
      Damn, the good ole days...

    • @AlexanderSchwarz-ck3cx
      @AlexanderSchwarz-ck3cx Рік тому +1

      Can you tell the exact article this was in?

    • @Skunkhunt_42
      @Skunkhunt_42 Рік тому +11

      ​@@kirahund6711swims pronouns are they/them😂

    • @unintentionallydramatic
      @unintentionallydramatic 11 місяців тому +2

      Ozonalysis seems really OP for fragrances of various kinds from common household materials.

  • @NautsuJJR
    @NautsuJJR Рік тому +22

    cant wait for this channel to turn out to just be chemplayers alt with a hired VA to do the voiceover instead of the TTS

  • @maestro9765
    @maestro9765 8 місяців тому +3

    I am convinced that this channel is a social experience to test how fast you can get arrested by the DEA from making UA-cam videos

  • @LiborTinka
    @LiborTinka Рік тому +52

    It's calming to see someone else doing it and going through the exact same ordeals in the prep (like the filtration of piperic acid) like I have. To improve yield, you can do the last reaction in two phases (DCM + water). BTW there is another cycloaddition product between periodate and the vicinal diol produced by permanganate (syn dihydroxylation) and this should give you three products: piperonal, glyoxal and glyoxylic acid (I think). The smaller aldehydes turn to soluble hydrates and stay in water while piperonal won't hydrate and go to the organic phase.
    You may not have to isolate the piperic acid - just filter off piperate after the amide hydrolysis and recrystallize it. Going throug piperic acid will get rid of more of the piperidine though as you can wash it as hydrochloride.
    Quenching the reaction mixture with ascorbic acid will reduce all the MnO2 into soluble manganese ascorbate and this will avoid another long filtration - excess ascorbic may also protect some of your aldehyde product from oxidation during workup.
    It would be nice if you made a video about purification of the product via bislfuite or oxime and maybe recrystallization from aq. 50-70% EtOH - it would be nice to see it done by someone as skillful as you! The video is professional quality as well as the 'Hamilton' witty undertones :D
    Thanks sir for all the inspiration and reviving the spirit of good ol' chemists like ChemPlayer on YT!

    • @ChemicalEuphoria
      @ChemicalEuphoria Рік тому +4

      For better yield it could have been better to not take out the chavicine, and after making piperinic and chavicinic acid ozonolysis by means of ozone followed by zinc reduction, to have way less byproducts.

    • @japanjapan3102
      @japanjapan3102 Рік тому

      cool

    • @Don_Soucy
      @Don_Soucy 8 місяців тому

      Once you try ozone, you will not go back to chemical oxidizers. @@ChemicalEuphoria

    • @ashleyobrien4937
      @ashleyobrien4937 6 місяців тому

      not so sure about that, making ozone in any appreciable amount for cleavage is a VERY slow process

  • @ThorirLenvik
    @ThorirLenvik Рік тому +56

    You should have porous paper timblets instead of the cotton plug. There's nothing wrong with the soxhlet. It's the cotton!

    • @Gradsteranimations
      @Gradsteranimations Рік тому +1

      thats what im sayin

    • @danaveye3977
      @danaveye3977 Рік тому +1

      Or, too much and needs to be precharged with clean solvent and deventilated

    • @wack1305
      @wack1305 Рік тому +4

      What is a timblet? I can’t find anything online
      Edit: oh thimble

    • @mustwereallydothis
      @mustwereallydothis 9 місяців тому

      I would go so far as to say that it wasn't the cotton either. It was a defective chemist who must have failed tenth grade physics.

    • @noname-80lbs
      @noname-80lbs 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@wack1305 a disposable component of Shoxhlet extractor

  • @Anilinequeen
    @Anilinequeen Рік тому +9

    I love how you show the mechanism of the reaction, keep making fun chemicals

  • @TaiGell
    @TaiGell Рік тому +36

    You packed lower cotton ball too dense. That is why it was not syphoning.

    • @minecraft115able
      @minecraft115able Рік тому +1

      this
      I made the same mistake

    • @juggernautonfire
      @juggernautonfire Рік тому

      I had this exact problem while doing a caffeine extraction from coffee. I've found the syphon is also hindered if the extraction material is ground too fine, it basically forms a plug and what's worse, some of the material doesn't even wet very well with the solvent. Better off using a coffee filter and coarser pepper like steak pepper and simply running more cycles.

    • @hoggif
      @hoggif Рік тому

      That was my immediate thought too. If the liquid level does not rise in tube to same level, it is blocked (by cotton in this case). Liquid level in tube will rise based on simple physics, unless there is a pressure drop high enough (sometimes called block).
      If you have only a bit blocked tube, it may also siphon out very slowly. Normally siphoning should be done in a few seconds for a small soxhlet. Large volume with small tubes could take somewhat longer of course.

    • @palamalama
      @palamalama Рік тому

      This is literally it #talking from experience

  • @apo_chromatic
    @apo_chromatic Рік тому +9

    An ozonolysis of the piperic acid would probably prove to be better than the permanganate to avoid side reactions. I think ozone generators are relatively cheap, so it may be worth a shot

  • @nathancheney8306
    @nathancheney8306 Рік тому +33

    Fell into the rabbit hole of UA-cam chemistry lately and I’ve been so excited to have found you my guy! Look forward to your videos every night and although I’m definetpy not a chemist you do a really good job of making it easy to follow along. Looking forward to learning some new stuff with every upload. Much love!

    • @cheeks1462
      @cheeks1462 Рік тому

      right?! found him today, been binging his vidz yo
      top shelf content this

  • @andrews.4780
    @andrews.4780 Рік тому +8

    This was a dope experiment bro your chemistry channel is really a revival to this side of UA-cam keep it coming bro 👏🏼💯

  • @JaredBrewerAerospace
    @JaredBrewerAerospace Рік тому +12

    Love your descriptions and other commentary on "subjective" observations of various properties. This experiment is very a much a sensory experience. You should try a simpler and far higher yield of piperonal from piperine that can be done in a one step process. Dissolve piperine in a minimum amount of dry acetone. Bubble ozone gas through the solution for 8-12 hours. That's it. It is possible to get ~95% yield of piperonal. I have managed 92% personally. There is a ton of literature out there on it so I won't go into the details. I believe the paper I used was from 1972 or 76. If you need it, I can dig it up for you.
    You end up with a reddish orange oil that is yellow around the edges in the resulting solution. Once the acetone is evaporated off it is already fairly pure, as I do not believe there are many side reactions, but recrystallization is never a bad idea. It smells exactly like a cherry gummy candy with a hint of vanilla.
    Note that this must be done in a fume hood! Ozone is nothing to play around with. It is one of the most oxidizing oxidizers in chemistry. Breathing in any substantial amount is like breathing in bleach vapor. The same goes with any mucous membrane. Preferentially it should be neutralized with an activated carbon filter or by passing the excess ozone through a solution of potassium iodide or sodium thiosulfate. The ozonolysis reaction is endothermic so the acetone solution gets extremely cold but it will not get cold enough to freeze the acetone.

    • @ashleyobrien4937
      @ashleyobrien4937 6 місяців тому

      I was under the impression that ozonolysis was not that practical because of the small amounts produced. So, you got 92 % that's a good yield for any reaction, but how much piperine did you use ?

  • @rubenr4421
    @rubenr4421 Рік тому +17

    mhm because it "smells better" 👀

  • @shakogasteier6370
    @shakogasteier6370 Рік тому +31

    This is one of the few seldom exclusion where yellow chemistry is not awful!

  • @Samsudindwc
    @Samsudindwc Рік тому +138

    Ah now only a few steps away from synthesising my own mdma

    • @KissMyConverseFool
      @KissMyConverseFool Рік тому +14

      bro it is for smells only

    • @wendys4306
      @wendys4306 Рік тому +1

      So he maybe do take by snort

    • @jessen00001
      @jessen00001 Рік тому +2

      I would not ❤

    • @grimunleashed9583
      @grimunleashed9583 Рік тому

      Good idea

    • @ev3rsonix392
      @ev3rsonix392 Рік тому +3

      Its doable but you need expensive equipment like a vacuum pump for example or you'd be exposing your whole neighborhood to toxic vapors including you

  • @th3r0d
    @th3r0d Рік тому +1

    Great vid and dive into chemistry, bub. These keep getting better and better.

  • @Jamiefearon
    @Jamiefearon Рік тому +4

    As an Englishman, the solution at 15:09 looks like the most perfect cup of tea.

  • @mikethew3irdo
    @mikethew3irdo Рік тому +12

    24:25 "However, i really didnt get that high"
    That because you didnt complete the full synthesis ; )

  • @SetTheCurve
    @SetTheCurve Рік тому +7

    For filtering, nothing beats a Buckner funnel with celite on the paper. You’ve never seen solutions get so clear, and never get a slow filter. A vacuum or aspirator is necessary with b funnels though, to hold the paper in on first pour.

  • @j_sum1
    @j_sum1 Рік тому +2

    Solid stuff: both the chemistry and the video production.

  • @That_Chemist
    @That_Chemist Рік тому +4

    usually periodate cleavage is done under acidic conditions - 2 min also sounds like a really short amount of time for the KMnO4 thing, but I don't know how long it should be run for (I haven't ever run a dihydroxylation before) - I would think if the dihydroxylation was done in a discrete step, the final periodate cleavage would be facile

  • @ashueje6416
    @ashueje6416 Рік тому +3

    Wonderful synthesis after so long from you🎉

  • @PotooBurd
    @PotooBurd 11 місяців тому

    This is so informative!!! Fantastic video; I love this kind of content!🌻🌼🐝

  • @GraceConyersDirtologist
    @GraceConyersDirtologist Рік тому +2

    Thank you for putting your resource links up! I'm positively addicted to doing more irrelevant things to my chemistry in the lab when you're in the waiting phase of hurry up and wait.

  • @_shadow_1
    @_shadow_1 Рік тому +4

    "I extracted the rest from Amazon, 100% yield."

  • @ketsuekikumori9145
    @ketsuekikumori9145 Рік тому +10

    "I seem to be cursed with orange chemistry."
    At least it's better than yellow chemistry.

    • @LiborTinka
      @LiborTinka Рік тому

      it was fun until I realized there is a very simple reason why most compounds are white-yellow-orange - especially small compounds which are those often made by amateur chemists

    • @jonpopelka
      @jonpopelka Рік тому +1

      We know that's you, Tom.

  • @Psychx_
    @Psychx_ Рік тому +3

    When you connect the joints of your funnel with those of the receiving flask, you can't filter with cotton because the joint forms a seal, and thus, the air in the flask has nowhere to go. Pressure buildup within the flask and the surface tension of the liquid prevent displacement of the air with the filtrate. The diameter to length ratio of 24/40 joints does contribute negatively aswell.
    Btw, the type of funnel you used, is called a "powder funnel" for this reason. It works fine with particulate matter in any case and only for fluid filtration when there's no seal around it. Try it out with a different funnel or an erlenmayer flask without ground joints as the receiving flask (same setup like with the coffee filters) and it will work.

    • @timecode37
      @timecode37 5 місяців тому

      imagine using dirty colonizer 24/40 joints instead of glorious european 29/32😏

  • @BlackRoseBun
    @BlackRoseBun Рік тому +5

    I know almost nothing about chemistry but thanks to you and others making informative videos like this I can safely say i could replicate this rather easily, and so I must say thank you. Thank you for making these processes/synthesises easy to access and easy to replicate.

  • @Jacob-wp8cx
    @Jacob-wp8cx Рік тому +2

    Ah yes the wizardly swirl of the flash everyone's favorite thing to do to the flask

  • @williambouthillier8611
    @williambouthillier8611 Рік тому +9

    Cotton always pisses me off when it's time to filter protic solvents, even for IPA. When you add water to cellulose, you can usually observe a certain swelling of the fibers which is thought to take place due to the packing of water molecules into the matrix. I suspect that H-Bonding interactions of the alcoholic solvents with the hydroxyl groups on the cellulose of the cotton forms a similar matrix which considerably slows down the flow. Otherwise I never had trouble using cotton filtration with any organic solvent.
    On a sidenote, is there a specific reason why dyou decided to go with the base catalyzed hydrolysis instead of acid catalyzed hydrolysis of the amide to the acid? Usually, it's much less efficient to hydrolyze amides under basic conditions because of the poor leaving group ability of the amine's conjugate base so it requires harsher conditions and longer reflux times which could result in some degradation of your products or reactant

  • @sydneyhunt6681
    @sydneyhunt6681 9 місяців тому

    Was thinking 💭 your like Chem player and then you said it lol great videos am enjoying thanks 😊

  • @johndeaux8815
    @johndeaux8815 Рік тому +31

    Hmm, I wonder what a certain Grignard reagent would do to this compound? 🤔

    • @williambouthillier8611
      @williambouthillier8611 Рік тому +11

      with only an alkyl grignard, it would take you another few steps to get to the interesting part, whereas a Henry condensation of nitroethane directly with the piperonal followed by NiCl2 catalyzed NaBH4 reduction of the resulting nitro to the amine would be quicker and probably much higher yielding. That being said, you would not have access to the N-Methyl analog through this route but you could access it from the conjugated nitro product of the condensation by reducing it to PMK and from there you can acces the N-Methyl analog

    • @mortlet5180
      @mortlet5180 Рік тому

      ​@@williambouthillier8611 ; I'm pretty sure "a certain Grignard reagent" wasn't referring to "only an alkyl Grignard"...

    • @williambouthillier8611
      @williambouthillier8611 Рік тому +1

      @@mortlet5180 well then would you please be so kind as to elaborate because I don't see what other grignard would get you further excpet maybe using an acetal protected one to directly get to the alpha hydroxy ketone, but you're left with that hydroxyl which isn't easy to remove at that position

    • @user-ls2ff5my8f
      @user-ls2ff5my8f 21 день тому

      Can we be friends ​@@williambouthillier8611

  • @BBigg-kh7pz
    @BBigg-kh7pz Рік тому +1

    If you add compressed air to the top of your condenser, you could force the solvent over the loop for drainage.

  • @gehtdinixan9173
    @gehtdinixan9173 Рік тому

    awesome, keep up the work man.

  • @ethanmcmain9112
    @ethanmcmain9112 Рік тому +2

    The reason for the low yield is because the rate of aldehyde oxidation to acid occurs far more quickly than the oxidation of the diol to the aldehyde. Using your current method you are essentially destroying the product as soon as you form it. I’m not sure where I heard this but apparently a much better way of doing it is to slowly drip permanganate over many hours into a huge volume of very dilute piperic acid (sodium salt) containing the periodate with extremely vigours stirring. The moment you start to visibly see the colour of permanganate you have ruined the reaction. After each addition the colour should vanish within a few seconds. If the colour lingers you added too much too quickly. You could also try doing a biphasic system where the DCM extracts the piperonal into the organic phase as soon as it forms thereby protecting it from oxidation.

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому

      Interesting. Let me try this out and see what happens!! Thank you

    • @zhanchi90
      @zhanchi90 Рік тому

      This. It's also what they are describing in a few old papers. All water based but insanely dilute, no fancy quenching solutions or periodate required.

  • @derenjoy3r
    @derenjoy3r Рік тому +3

    Would love to see the THF/KMnO4 method, also - great video! Love to see the chemplayer legacy get carried further - the knowledge and little tips from videos like these really helped me with all the O Chem I did so far

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому +3

      I found the paper online and another with oxidative cleavage using O3, 5% acetone in water, and ether as an extract solvent

    • @derenjoy3r
      @derenjoy3r Рік тому

      ​@@chemdelic Now cleavage with ozone, that would be even more interesting as a video IMO, if accessible for you..
      Btw, are you from the EU or US or smth else? Bc I checked and even small scale piperonal synthesis is illegal in the EU as far as I can tell

    • @ForgottenModders
      @ForgottenModders Рік тому

      @@chemdelic If you go the O3 route, Make sure that generator isn't as shady as Tom's lmao. Ole death box he's got

    • @michaelf7093
      @michaelf7093 Рік тому +1

      @@chemdelic You can get a ozone water purifier for about 200 bucks in the states. Just hook up a tube to the output, and bubble it through your piperinic acid solution. It will take several hours.

    • @Don_Soucy
      @Don_Soucy 10 місяців тому

      Could you share the link for that paper? @@chemdelic

  • @chemistryreacts
    @chemistryreacts Рік тому +2

    This is a beautiful piece of content, I hope youtube plays nice!

  • @timh2859
    @timh2859 Рік тому +7

    "smells better", yeah...

  • @toni6194
    @toni6194 Рік тому +2

    Id be interessted in a video about turning piperonal into mdma but i think you cant do that on yt sadly. Awesome video bud hope it stays online

  • @MrBoho7
    @MrBoho7 Рік тому

    This man oit uere doing gods work teaching children about the spiciest of chemistry. Never stop being the G that you are

  • @Chemiolis
    @Chemiolis Рік тому +5

    Mmmm very interesting structure

  • @kinexkid
    @kinexkid Рік тому +10

    I've wanted a soxhlet extractor for a while now but I have no other glassware or heating mantles or anything else. I just want to extract all the oils from my herbs in my herb garden. We have a rosemary plant that's probably about 100-150 square feet in size as well as many other herbs.

    • @defenestrated23
      @defenestrated23 Рік тому +6

      Steam distillation works far better for pulling essential oils than soxhlet extraction. Piperine isn't volatile enough which is why Chemdelic used it here. You can get steam extraction stills pretty cheap online (thanks essential oil foofoo types?). soxhlet are also a pain to clean out.

    • @xenoxaos1
      @xenoxaos1 Рік тому +1

      You'd also end up with a lot of the waxy substances in the rosemary.

    • @noname-80lbs
      @noname-80lbs 7 місяців тому

      Most labs use addition funnels instead of Shoxhlet. But you need a little labware

    • @noname-80lbs
      @noname-80lbs 7 місяців тому

      My advice, spend some money since essential oils are a privilegie. And you must do yourself to be sure the oil is good quality one

  • @captainkurt8802
    @captainkurt8802 Рік тому +4

    You should do a lysergic acid amide extraction and (if possible?) crystallization from woodrose seeds.

  • @jl8n29
    @jl8n29 Рік тому +2

    Ethylvanillin might be an interesting route

  • @verysmallcats1374
    @verysmallcats1374 Рік тому

    "I seem to always be cursed with orange chemistry" that reflection was so out of left field it LOL

  • @geekswithfeet9137
    @geekswithfeet9137 Рік тому +3

    Im so glad to see that im not the only degenerate in this thread.... keep up the good work guys

  • @tonyflamingo3285
    @tonyflamingo3285 Рік тому +10

    I once played around with pepper chemistry and made what I am pretty sure was 3,4-methylenedioxy-phenyl-aceticacid. It smelled super sweet but it was not very pleasent(possibly due to me burning a bit of it) it was either a very viscous liquid or a very waxy solid. I only made it so I could glout to my friends about mdma synthesis but I made the carboxylic acid because you can just halogenate it methylate the halide after whitch you just do a reductive amination to the ketone with methylamine HCL.

    • @ashleyobrien4937
      @ashleyobrien4937 6 місяців тому

      no your chemistry doesn't sound right at all

    • @tonyflamingo3285
      @tonyflamingo3285 6 місяців тому

      @@ashleyobrien4937 Yeah I did write it wrong. When you have the COCL group you have to react it with some methyl nucleophile. Then you should have the ketone to reduce.

  • @Ryush806
    @Ryush806 Рік тому +2

    Lower cotton packed too dense for sure. Might even try something like inert glass or ceramic beads that are bigger than the tube opening as a support for the bottom cotton. That way you have a much lower chance of the tube plugging. Source: I’m a chemical engineer and this is what we do for our catalytic reactors to retain the catalyst but let the liquids go on through on an industrial scale.

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому

      Thank you for the advice! I will try that

  • @plokoon4217
    @plokoon4217 Рік тому +2

    Nice extraction and synthesis, have you ever thought about making citrulline?

  • @christianterrill3503
    @christianterrill3503 Рік тому +2

    Welcome to the watch list boys and girls!

  • @Drencromalicious
    @Drencromalicious Рік тому +1

    The MnO2 is easily cleaned with Ascorbic acid. Just rinse with Vitamin C solution.

  • @generalingwer4341
    @generalingwer4341 Рік тому

    Nice video,gonna be a bit til im ready for this one.still trying to master the piperine process.thanks.

  • @geoffc1694
    @geoffc1694 8 місяців тому

    not seen this for years. you having fun?
    BEElieve and youll get there eventually!
    BTW in subsequent reactions you can take a shortcut and make the unmethylated amine if you decide to nitrate in a henry condensation then reductively animate from there.MDA.
    of course u can go the usual route, more steps to MDMA
    for academic research only of course.
    good luck!

  • @generalingwer4341
    @generalingwer4341 Рік тому

    Im just learning chemistry.wanted to try one of these extractors.have found out coffee filters suck. they are about 30 microns ive read.nothing goes through them.never imagìned them that fine.gonna save and try this video sometime...thanku!

  • @Psychx_
    @Psychx_ Рік тому +1

    When using a Soxhlet extractor, coarser grinds usually work a tad better, esp. when it comes to draining the apparatus. I had mine clog with plant powder during first use, despite putting in cotton -.-

  • @J_F_1992
    @J_F_1992 Рік тому

    Bro you out here doin the lords work. Im joining your patreon and i wanna learn some more in the discord lol. Nobody else has the balls to post these vids. I bought gen chem and organic chem courses on udemy and it sucks to learn this alone. Im getting wrecked and im a software engineer.

  • @dalekender422
    @dalekender422 Рік тому +8

    I just read a paper about the synthesis of piperonal, so it was really cool seeing this video. The potassium permanganate method you mention at the end was one of the routes they examined, but they """only""" got a 65% yield. The other route from piperine in the paper involved ozonolysis, but you probably don't have access to an ozone generator so I don't know if you could pull that one off. In addition to the methods that started from piperine, a couple procedures that started from vanillin were described.
    Also, how much piperine did you recover? It isn't very useful, but I think a video about piperine synthesis would be worth making, simply because of how inaccessible it is. It also has a pretty chemical structure.

    • @maxboone8279
      @maxboone8279 Рік тому

      Even if you have an ozone generator that's quite dangerous because of extremely explosive reaction products.
      You could use an acetone / dry ice mixture to cool the reaction vessel but that's quite the set up.

  • @t4steless348
    @t4steless348 11 місяців тому

    In Terms of flavor chemistry..white pepper as it goes thru a fermentation step has slightly lower piperine. Additionally typical % content of piperine in black pepper hydrocarbon Extracts (acetone/hexane) ie. Is ~40% piperine. ...cool vid 😊!

  • @FullModernAlchemist
    @FullModernAlchemist 7 місяців тому

    Putting a bit of filter paper down there in front of the hole before putting a little cotton in there can help. Basically the cotton was plugging the hole cus it was packed too tight. It happened to me a couple of times.

  • @SciDOCMBC
    @SciDOCMBC 7 місяців тому +1

    14:16 Of course, stirring doesn't help against bumping in your case. Your magnetic stirrer is much too small for that. That is also the reason why you burned parts of your product. There was no stirring on the edge. Another small but perhaps helpful note: If you want to isolate natural products you shouldn't work with small quantities, at least if you want a pure product. Experience shows that such natural products have to recrystallize several times in order to get the product to some extent pure. Of course, you fall in love with some product. Therefore better more than less.

  • @Khrissci
    @Khrissci Рік тому

    I love your titles

  • @science_and_anonymous
    @science_and_anonymous Рік тому

    Bringing back good memories of chemplayer...

    • @science_and_anonymous
      @science_and_anonymous Рік тому

      Also, the reason for the prevention of the flow in the Sox. Ex. is due to you pressing the cotton down too hard. It should be very gentle and loose. Imagine the consistency of a cloud, and start from there.

  • @matsolsson9067
    @matsolsson9067 Рік тому +4

    What was your reasoning behind using IPA and ethanol instead of chloroform which piperine is much more soluble in? Assuming you have some left from your hypochlorite to chloroform vid:)

  • @NuttyGeek
    @NuttyGeek Рік тому +1

    14:00 you've got the condenser inlet and outlet messed up. The cold water should always be connected to the lower inlet. Otherwise you'll get an air bubble right at the hottest spot of the condenser at its entry, thus reducing the overal distilation effectivenes and even risking to break the condeser glass at the overheated spot with a random splash of cold water.
    But thank you for the interesting content of the homebrewed stuff anyway! Thinking about joining your Patreon club :)

  • @evanlabrant5448
    @evanlabrant5448 22 дні тому

    As other have suggested, a paper thimble for the soxhlet would have worked much better. You don’t have to buy the expensive analytical thimbles made for soxhlets, you can fold a couple coffee filters into a cone and it works very well. Also, it helps to pre-wet very dry powders with solvent to prevent air pockets.

  • @ejkozan
    @ejkozan Рік тому +1

    In case of soxhlet and filtration cotton is packed (depending on cotton you push very slightly or even not at all), and first case too much, this broke siphoning. Also from what i remember from literature, diethyl ether gives pure compound directly.
    And also all this could be done directly in one step ozonolysis reaction, with high yield.

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому

      I’m setting a video up to show that alongside KMnO4 in THF as well!

    • @ejkozan
      @ejkozan Рік тому +1

      @@chemdelichighly recommend protocol for ozonolysis in acetone with water, it directly makes ketones and aldehydes, do not need any additives. I did not do it personally but I talked with person who did. It seems pretty good for hobby lab

  • @Aldertonartco
    @Aldertonartco 9 місяців тому

    You said I’m looking to get one of these. You say that coffee filters are the mainstay of home chemistry and I agree - they are REALLY USEFULL! looking good, which reflux condenser did you use on top of the sohlex extractor? Did it have a mad, huge joint. All the ones I been looking at are huge - like a #40 Joint and seems to be a spiral Graham condenser.

  • @phillipmaciejewski9872
    @phillipmaciejewski9872 Рік тому

    anyone else get bothered when he let both the other stir bars solutions B and C fall into the beaker with solution A in step 3? the thought of that chaotic tumbling had me stressin lol. great video though, lots of nice colors throughout and i'm sure it smells great. gotta love when chemistry safely satisfies multiple other senses

  • @dantefuego
    @dantefuego Рік тому +5

    Brown Camphor oil smells great too

    • @gatergates8813
      @gatergates8813 Рік тому +1

      Eugenol (clove oil) is one of my favorites

    • @nefariousyawn
      @nefariousyawn Рік тому

      ​@@gatergates8813 it makes me nostalgic for 2009ish when I smoked cloves (before they were banned in the US).

    • @defenestrated23
      @defenestrated23 Рік тому

      Does it though? I've tried to locate brown camphor oil which actually smells good, but every source I found stripped out the best-smelling essential oil.

    • @dantefuego
      @dantefuego Рік тому

      ​@@defenestrated23 i know right, the yellow and white camphor is nothing to rave about

    • @sneakyBase
      @sneakyBase Рік тому

      I agree .

  • @yungtrashlord
    @yungtrashlord Рік тому

    what is with this law and order sound effects 😂😂😂i fucking love it

  • @ChemicalEuphoria
    @ChemicalEuphoria Рік тому +3

    5:02 i know why it didn't filter through! it's because you didnt leave any gap for air to get out of the flask... i made this mistakes soooo many times lol 😂
    now i mainly use cotton and i pack it kinda hard, it still works for me... i suggest using a narrow-necked funnel with a littoe cotton on the bottom, dont make a ball with the cotton but slide a piece on the bottom and press it with a finger. using some solvent to wet the cotton while pressing it down helps...

    • @hoggif
      @hoggif Рік тому

      Soxlet has the other tube by which vapor gets to the condenser. Bottle is therefore connected to bottom of condenser that has open top. It is not closed system.

    • @ChemicalEuphoria
      @ChemicalEuphoria Рік тому

      @@hoggif im talking about filtration, not extraction. I pinged the time mark and i said "filter", i thought that was clear enough

    • @hoggif
      @hoggif Рік тому

      @@ChemicalEuphoria Oh, I did not notice the time mark. Sorry about confusion!

  • @yeoldebaccyfarm3081
    @yeoldebaccyfarm3081 Рік тому

    btw. i tend to use glass wool instead of cotton because working on a small scale. when i use cotton I tend to pack it very lightly in the stem and have a small mushroom ish part above the stem.

  • @Itssmial_Ova
    @Itssmial_Ova 11 місяців тому

    LOL
    Once again, Brilliant.
    This will help with.... Making things smell good I guess.

  • @quokofumi5653
    @quokofumi5653 Рік тому

    You could add saturated salt solution into the dcm/water exctraction to get little bit more product

  • @chadkline4268
    @chadkline4268 11 місяців тому

    Black pepper, as noted, is used to acquire Piperine, along with its isomer Chavicine, the compounds responsible for the pungency of black pepper. Piperidine, a cyclic amine that results from Piperine hydrolysis, is used with Cyclohexanone to make PCP.

  • @fastbre4ker
    @fastbre4ker Рік тому

    i somewhere saw an prep where Mg/MeOH reduced the double bond of an piperine derivate on the 3,4 position, oxidizing this alkene would lead to the phenylacetic acid, if you want try it out :P

  • @heat_wave5774
    @heat_wave5774 Рік тому

    What a talented scientist... I wonder what he's making🤔😏

  • @VyvienneEaux
    @VyvienneEaux 3 місяці тому

    Do you know if methanol is a suitable solvent for the ozonolysis? I just completed a successful run with acetone, however I elected to purify the piperinal via sodium bisulfite adduct; this worked really well, actually, and my product seems quite pure. My only complaint is that the acetone has to be removed and replaced with methanol after the ozonolysis in order to do the bisulfite adduct workup because sodium bisulfite also creates an adduct with acetone.
    Seeing as methanol is actually the solvent of choice for most ozonolysis reactions of alkenes, I think it should work as a solvent and allow me to do my bisulfite adduct workup without the extra step of drying and re-dissolving the reaction mixture.
    Btw, I ran cables and tubing into my freezer that averages -14 C and did constant, vigorous stirring that created a spray inside the flask. I used the measurements you gave in the video, but put everything into a 2 L 3-neck RBF. Ozone was pumped in on one side via a gas addition adapter and a check valve was used on the other side to make sure gas could exit but air could not enter. The middle neck had a thermometer adapter. Effectively, it was a constant spray under ozone atmosphere at -10 to -20 C (depending on the caprice of my freezer). I could smell delicious cherry candy from the gas outlet tube after the first couple hours.

  • @sneakyBase
    @sneakyBase Рік тому

    Its nice to see somone try to make piperonal even copied the chemplayer method. I suggest you to try ozonolysis method because its shorter and cheaper method while you dont need some expensive potassium periodate or dcm. The yield is still better from this method. Tnx for try show good things to others

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому +1

      I actually did try the ozonolysis! I’m gonna post a updated video on a couple methods

    • @sneakyBase
      @sneakyBase Рік тому

      @@chemdelic impatiently waiting to see . That one will rock the utube. Tnx

    • @Don_Soucy
      @Don_Soucy 11 місяців тому

      can we get a heads up?@@chemdelic

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 Рік тому +1

    Hey YT finally notified me of this, 37 minutes after the premiere 🤔

  • @Aldertonartco
    @Aldertonartco 9 місяців тому

    Which hot plate do you use? I have the eBay classic blue one but I put an oil bath and it took ages to get to temperature - I was only distilling alcohol using a vigreux collumn (I don’t know why really -mother than I needed it to separate some yellow DMT infused solvent…anyway I refluxed using my hob as a heat source and got some stuff coming over but then the RB flask cracked - I think because it was covered with foil, I took a peak and I think the cool air cracked it! 😢 literally got it that day!

  • @platinumwaiter
    @platinumwaiter Рік тому

    I think a lot of yield was lost with the extraction. Seemed like the aqueous layer was a fair volume and usually when adding in solvent to extract you want to use about 70-100% of the aqueous volume. Usually also extract three times, maybe more if you really want some extra stuff (although if you pull in 90% of your desired compound into the organic layer you should have 99.9% of it after 3 extractions)

  • @fmdj
    @fmdj Місяць тому

    This looks awsome, definitely trying it and I'll report back.

  • @christopherleubner6633
    @christopherleubner6633 Рік тому

    The soxhlet effect is caused by a syphon. In order for ot to work well you need to have a gap between the filter and the wall. That way there is enough fluid to start the syphoning and flush the tube. 🤓❤

  • @nomcopterlabs
    @nomcopterlabs Рік тому

    I think your cotton filtration isn't working because you are using a jointed funnel and it is making too good of a seal. Try breaking the seal at the joint and see if it starts flow next time you run into issues. Fun video!

  • @aretardridesmotard6128
    @aretardridesmotard6128 Рік тому

    Quality video my dude

  • @playmaka2007
    @playmaka2007 Рік тому

    I understand basically zero of what's happening here but I still somehow had fun!

  • @axslv
    @axslv Рік тому

    Wait I thought that conc HCl is to be added DROPWISE while RIGOROUSLY stirring. 36% HCl is a decent concentration, its even fuming! 😱16:05 I'd suggest you to cool the solution (just in cakes), stirr it and add HCl dropwise. Awesome vid, thanks!

  • @ashe1.070
    @ashe1.070 Рік тому

    Using sodium bisulfite solution works well for cleaning manganese dioxide off glassware

  • @CaptivaLP
    @CaptivaLP Рік тому

    Thx for showing how to make a MDMA precursor

  • @sergiobcit9881
    @sergiobcit9881 Рік тому

    I think it would be better to recristalize piperine using isopropyl alcohol, but once you had disolved it you should add water until its not soluble anymore, and then add a bit of alcohol in order to dissolve all the pyperine. This way you will be sure that you would barely loose pyperine

  • @fmdj
    @fmdj Місяць тому

    Piperine is crashed out and in the fridge!
    I got worried for a moment as my isopropyl was a deep black but yellow when in a thin layer, very strange color (I let it reflux quite a long time with the pepper so it probably dissolved some of the dyes too).
    Then I didn't distill enough of the solvent to be able to crash the piperine out in the flask I wanted to use, so I had to split the liquid into 5 other containers to have enough room for the amount of water needed but it ended up precipitating exactly like in the video!
    Filtering will be fun. Hopefully vacuum filtration won't be too painful.

  • @benjamintrathen6119
    @benjamintrathen6119 Рік тому +2

    I would like to see you extract and purify cannabinoids with this method using chloroform as your solvent which does not dissolve any green chlorophyl pigment. Alternately could use another solvent like petroleum distillate or something else but they don't have this effect on chlorophyl.

    • @fishingd5962
      @fishingd5962 Рік тому

      I wish there was a video about extracting cannabis resin into diamonds from his lab

  • @thatguy431
    @thatguy431 Рік тому

    youre playing with yellow chemistry on purpose?! nuttiness!

  • @remiheneault8208
    @remiheneault8208 4 місяці тому

    Still waiting for part two of this synthesis! Maybe on Nebula or less strict streaming service.