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Cicutoxin and Enanthotoxin

sparkgap - 16-1-2005 at 06:18

Sorry for posting it here. I'm new and not very sure where to put this in.

I've scoured the web trying to find how to pull out these wicked unsaturated alcohols from water hemlock and water dropwort to no avail. Haven't had much luck with literature search either. Damn library.

Anyone have know-how on how I could get at it? Thanks a bunch. (^_^)

Sergei_Eisenstein - 16-1-2005 at 23:30

Isolation of cicutoxin: Jacobson, JACS 37 (1915) 916

Be careful.

sparkgap - 18-1-2005 at 01:06

Yeah, I know. One spill and I wiggle myself to doomsday. ;)

Thanks a bunch. Just needed to extract it for a pal with rats to kill.

sparky

guaguanco - 18-1-2005 at 15:22

Quote:
Originally posted by sparkgap
Yeah, I know. One spill and I wiggle myself to doomsday. ;)

Thanks a bunch. Just needed to extract it for a pal with rats to kill.

sparky


I think your pal could find a lot safer and more effective rat poisons. They make some amazing warfarin analogues these days.

Lanafan10 - 14-5-2013 at 14:46

What is the process of extraction?

Thebrain - 14-5-2013 at 17:03

Just curious. Why go to all this trouble when warfarin based rodenticides are available?

macckone - 24-5-2013 at 12:17

Quote: Originally posted by Thebrain  
Just curious. Why go to all this trouble when warfarin based rodenticides are available?

Warfarin resistant rats?
The dang things can eat rat poison and then they ask for seconds.

ScienceSquirrel - 24-5-2013 at 12:38

Rat traps?
Cheap, very powerful and reusable.
It is the green solution.
I arm mine wearing heavy gloves as they can chop a small rat in half when they fire.
The bodies are thrown in the field for the crows or gulls to eat, sometimes the cat has a chew first. :-)
I load mine with bacon as bait or failing that a lump of dead rat.
Cannibalistic little baskets!

Eddygp - 24-5-2013 at 12:52

Quote: Originally posted by sparkgap  
Sorry for posting it here. I'm new and not very sure where to put this in.

I've scoured the web trying to find how to pull out these wicked unsaturated alcohols from water hemlock and water dropwort to no avail. Haven't had much luck with literature search either. Damn library.

Anyone have know-how on how I could get at it? Thanks a bunch. (^_^)

New? According to your user, you have 1167 posts and are an international hazard who joined in 2005. Are you sure? ;)

[Edited on 24-5-2013 by Eddygp]

weiming1998 - 25-5-2013 at 05:30

Quote: Originally posted by Eddygp  
Quote: Originally posted by sparkgap  
Sorry for posting it here. I'm new and not very sure where to put this in.

I've scoured the web trying to find how to pull out these wicked unsaturated alcohols from water hemlock and water dropwort to no avail. Haven't had much luck with literature search either. Damn library.

Anyone have know-how on how I could get at it? Thanks a bunch. (^_^)

New? According to your user, you have 1167 posts and are an international hazard who joined in 2005. Are you sure? ;)

[Edited on 24-5-2013 by Eddygp]


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Look at the date of that post...

Eddygp - 25-5-2013 at 10:17

Oh lol someone necroed it