Hello just wondering is anyone knows a bit about the chemistry of most common tryptamines that you can buy from chem suppliers, what does the Hydrochloride mean at the end of say Diethyltryptamine HCL, is it still DET?? or something totally different?
i've mentioned this before.. freebases are the pure form of alkaloids, which may be converted into HCl salts for stability, both for storage, and/or transport. hydrochloride salts are water soluble, thus dissolve readily in stomach tissue. the HCl component is a separate molecular entity, ionically bonded to the psychoactive component, making it more stable.
it can be thought of as the HCl being like a handle that you attatch to a briefcase. it allows the chemical to sort of be 'grabbed' by water and thus dissolved, as well as allowing you to hang the briefcases on a rack, for storage (rack = linear placement = crystal). it also is like a latch on teh briefcase so that other chemicals cant come along and tear it apart - freebases are unstable its not like youre eating hydrocloric acid, which is what you get when you dissolve HCl by itself in water
