Soxhlet extraction with acetone

Anyone here tried a Soxhlet extractor for iboga extractions? The solvent I'd use is acetone because the freebase alkaloids are soluble in it, it has a low boiling and its aprotic (which means its less likely to react with the alkaloids). I don't have a soxhlet extractor so I can't test this out yet.

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woodsyseal· 21 Sept 2026

i friend of mine once assembled a pretty technologially shameless improvization of a soxhlet using a bucket and a... actually wait, there it is: http://forums.lycaeum.org/index.php?topic=21256.msg267707#msg267707

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calmridge84· 21 Sept 2026

Nice!! I have a bit of a survivalist mentality so I'm a big fan of MacGyvering things. I MacGyvered a distillation apparatus once and it actually worked. Right now I'm trying to come up with a ghetto apparatus for bubbling gases. The apparatus I use consists of an RB flask, a gas outlet adaptor, an addition funnel and a tube. The addition funnel seems to be the trickiest part to get around. I could plug a wine bottle with a cork with tube through it but the tricky part is how do I add the second reactant to it. For example, if I wanna make ammonia, I add some ammonium sulphate to the wine bottle and put the cork in. Now I just need a way to add some NaOH solution to it. Have to have a bit of control over the addition speed too cuz if I added it all at once, the bottle might explode. Another apparatus I improvised, hobo style was a reflux apparatus. I just inverted the lid of a cooking pot and put ice in the inverted lid lol.

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