From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: LSD
Date: 31 Dec 1992 09:08:29 GMT
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Keywords: LSD

rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) writes:
>umcormi5@ccu.umanitoba.ca (John Cormier) writes:
>>I was wondering what LSD stood for again.  I believe it is a type of acid
>>(hence the nickname).  Also since I was child I've learned it was easy
>>to make in a high school laboratory.  I think it was the Hardy Boys that
>>discovered someone making LSD or something. Just for kicks, does anyone
>>have any recipes.  I assure you that I am not a drug dealer or a drug user
>>myself. I have always been interested in the morality of drug use but this
>>is probably not the proper group for those kind of discussions. Anyhow, 
>>if anybody has any concontions post them or mail them to me if you don't
>>feel confortable about posting them.  Happy New Year to you all.
>
>>John Cormier
>
>	Your post is an obvious joke.  ha ha ha. 
> 
>	LSD stands in english for d-lysergic dythalide or something.
>The "S" stands for the german word for "acid", since it was originally
>named there.  LSD is very difficult to synthesize without much money
>and equipment and knowledge.  It is probably even more difficult to
>synthesize into accurate doses.  I have neither the knowledge nor the
>inclination to do either so you might ask somebody with more know-how
>and a better sense of humor than me.

From Merck:

  5507. Lysergide.  9,10-Didehydro-N,N-diethyl-6-meth-
ylergoline-8beta-carboxamide; N,N-diethyl-D-lysergamide; D-
lysergic acid diethylamide; LSD; LSD-25; Lysergsaure Di-
ethylamid.  C20H25N3O; mol wt 323.42.  C 74.27%, H 7.79%,
N 12.99%, O 4.95%.

[...]
 
                     / C2H5         
          H.     CON    
            '. /     \ C2H5 
             / \ 
           /     \  
          ||      |
          ||      N
   /\\    /\     / \ 
 /   \\ /    \ /     CH3 
||     |      | \ 
||     |      |   H 
 \   // \    /     
   \//    \/ 
    |     ||
    |     ||
   HN-------

[...]

  D-Tartrate, C46H64N6O10, solvated, elongated prisoms from
methanol, mp 198-200deg.  [alpha](D)(20) + 30 deg.  Soluble in water.
  Caution:  This is a controlled substance (hallucinogen)
listed in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21 Part
1308.11 (1987).
  USE: In biochemical research as an antagonist to serotonin.
Has been used experimentally as adjunct in study and treat-
ment of mental disorders.

-----

The LysergSaure Diethylamide is where you get the LSD abbreviation
from.  And its going to take probably 2-3 years of chemistry in order to be
able to make LSD.  Its not something that is going to be able to be
whipped up in your average laboratory.  And if you'd like to see the
syntheses, check out the Merck or the book Psychedelic Chemistry (but
check the references on _Psych Chem_, I've found dangerous typoes in it) --
plan on not having a clue on how to decipher the synths since they're
written for chemists to be able to understand.

I don't know if LSD is an acid or not, but because it forms a salt with
tartric or maelic acid, I doubt any acidity could be very high...

anthony?  jeremy?

-- 
Lamont Granquist  lamontg@u.washington.edu
  "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
                                      -- Robert Anton Wilson
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