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==Semi-Synthetic Synthesis==

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<nomobile>{{decree|type=delete|message=WARNING!!! The anticholinergic tropane alkaloids used are EXTREMELY POISONOUS and can be ABSORBED THROUGH THE SKIN!!! Please take EXTREME precautions when handling these plants and the resulting anticholinergic tropane alkaloids that lie within. You must give these plants great respect or they will punish you severely. In lieu of waterproof lab attire, using large disposable trash bags to cover the head, body, legs, and arms, as well as safety glasses for the face is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!!! Physostigmine, a cholinergic agent, is the chemical used to reverse the anticholinergic effects and poisoning of the tropane alkaloids. It occurs naturally in the Calabar bean and the fruit of the Manchineel tree.}}</nomobile>

'''Overview'''

Here we are obtaining tropine to create tropinone from a natural source; the anticholinergic tropane alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine, hyocyamine, mandragovine, and other similar tropane alkaloids obtained from the plants in the Solanaceae family, such Belladonna, Datura, Henbane, Brugmansia, and Mandrake. Tropane alkaloids all contain the tropane ring which, when separated from the tropic, scopic, and hyoscopic, and similar acids becomes tropine, which we can use as a source chemical to produce tropinone, which is necessary for creation of synthetic cocaine.

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'''Extraction'''

<nomobile>{{decree|type=delete|message=WARNING!!! The anticholinergic tropane alkaloids used are EXTREMELY POISONOUS and can be ABSORBED THROUGH THE SKIN!!! Please take EXTREME precautions when handling these plants and the resulting anticholinergic tropane alkaloids that lie within. You must give these plants great respect or they will punish you severely. In lieu of waterproof lab attire, using large disposable trash bags to cover the head, body, legs, and arms, as well as safety glasses for the face is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!!! Physostigmine, a cholinergic agent, is the chemical used to reverse the anticholinergic effects and poisoning of the tropane alkaloids. It occurs naturally in the Calabar bean and the fruit of the Manchineel tree.}}</nomobile>

~~'''Extraction'''~~

A boiling water extraction is used to extract the tropane alkaloids from the plant material. A sheet of cloth as a filter is put down in a container and water is boiled in said container. The plants are then pulled up by the roots, washed with water, and then placed in the container and pulverized and macerated while under the water with an appropriate utensil such as a piece of wood or a pipe. Keeping a lid on the container at all times will preclude spattering, which could absorb through your skin giving you anticholinergic poisoning. After the brew has boiled for some time pull up the cloth as a filter, leaving the extracted alkaloids in the water. Boil down the water for a concentrated solution of tropane alkaloids. Multiple extractions with both the same and different plant matter from another vessel(s) and transferred and boiled down in the main vessel will result in a concentrated aqueous solution of tropane alkaloids.

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 ==Semi-Synthetic Synthesis==
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+<nomobile>{{decree|type=delete|message=WARNING!!! The anticholinergic tropane alkaloids used are EXTREMELY POISONOUS and can be ABSORBED THROUGH THE SKIN!!! Please take EXTREME precautions when handling these plants and the resulting anticholinergic tropane alkaloids that lie within. You must give these plants great respect or they will punish you severely. In lieu of waterproof lab attire, using large disposable trash bags to cover the head, body, legs, and arms, as well as safety glasses for the face is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!!! Physostigmine, a cholinergic agent, is the chemical used to reverse the anticholinergic effects and poisoning of the tropane alkaloids. It occurs naturally in the Calabar bean and the fruit of the Manchineel tree.}}</nomobile>
 '''Overview'''
 Here we are obtaining tropine to create tropinone from a natural source; the anticholinergic tropane alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine, hyocyamine, mandragovine, and other similar tropane alkaloids obtained from the plants in the Solanaceae family, such Belladonna, Datura, Henbane, Brugmansia, and Mandrake. Tropane alkaloids all contain the tropane ring which, when separated from the tropic, scopic, and hyoscopic, and similar acids becomes tropine, which we can use as a source chemical to produce tropinone, which is necessary for creation of synthetic cocaine.
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+'''Extraction'''
-<nomobile>{{decree|type=delete|message=WARNING!!! The anticholinergic tropane alkaloids used are EXTREMELY POISONOUS and can be ABSORBED THROUGH THE SKIN!!! Please take EXTREME precautions when handling these plants and the resulting anticholinergic tropane alkaloids that lie within. You must give these plants great respect or they will punish you severely. In lieu of waterproof lab attire, using large disposable trash bags to cover the head, body, legs, and arms, as well as safety glasses for the face is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!!! Physostigmine, a cholinergic agent, is the chemical used to reverse the anticholinergic effects and poisoning of the tropane alkaloids. It occurs naturally in the Calabar bean and the fruit of the Manchineel tree.}}</nomobile>
-'''Extraction'''
 A boiling water extraction is used to extract the tropane alkaloids from the plant material. A sheet of cloth as a filter is put down in a container and water is boiled in said container. The plants are then pulled up by the roots, washed with water, and then placed in the container and pulverized and macerated while under the water with an appropriate utensil such as a piece of wood or a pipe. Keeping a lid on the container at all times will preclude spattering, which could absorb through your skin giving you anticholinergic poisoning. After the brew has boiled for some time pull up the cloth as a filter, leaving the extracted alkaloids in the water. Boil down the water for a concentrated solution of tropane alkaloids. Multiple extractions with both the same and different plant matter from another vessel(s) and transferred and boiled down in the main vessel will result in a concentrated aqueous solution of tropane alkaloids.