Making Tryptamines for Enlightenment

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In this video I make the common medication scaffold tryptamine from the essential amino-acid L-Tryptophan, found in all foods and available OTC as a supplement. I then use it to make a Tryptoline derivative, which are interesting for their wide variety of applications in medicine.

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No literature was used for Tryptamine synthesis

Tryptoline synthesis
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

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