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In this video I make the common medication scaffold tryptamine from the essential amino-acid L-Tryptophan, found in all foods and available OTC as a supplement. I then use it to make a Tryptoline derivative, which are interesting for their wide variety of applications in medicine.

Intro largely written by Damian (Discord: tangramexcerpt)

No literature was used for Tryptamine synthesis

Tryptoline synthesis
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

Animation of Psilocybin/Psilocin receptor binding from:
   • Psilocybin/Psilocin Binding to 5-HT2A...  

Glowing scorpion footage from Veritasium:
   • Why Scorpions Glow in the Dark  

Harmala extract Fluorescence footage from:
   • peganum harmala extract Fluorescence