Are lysergic acid alkaloids fatty acids?

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"Alkaloids and lipids of Ipomoea, Rivea and Convolvulus and their application to chemotaxonomy" (K. Gexest) in Volume 42 of Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society (Fatty acid composition of morning glory seed oil) indicates that "lipid values were relatively high in samples that had a high lysergic-acid content."

One Stanley Krippner achieved good results by boiling his seeds, which flies in the face of all Net advice.

I prepared tea by crushing and boiling the seeds.
I opened my eyes and noticed that the carpet in my apartment was a luxurious shade of green interwoven with threads of vivid blue. It was almost like a small lake with ripples catching the gleams of the sun.

http://www.psychedelic-library.org/books/ecstatic3.htm

If lysergic acid alkaloids are lipids, this means that heat and light is not an issue as far as preparation of these seeds.

 

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technicality: a fatty acid cannot be an alkaloid because there's no amino group

 

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If lysergic acid alkaloids are lipids, this means that heat and light is not an issue as far as preparation of these seeds.

I'm not sure I quite follow you to this conclusion, even if they were somehow fatty acids, we know their structures, and we know they are susceptible to radical decomposition.

 

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What I'm really trying to say is that lysergic acid alkaloids may be in the form of a unique salt(s) that are much less sensitive than is popularly believed.

 

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my guess is that they basified ground seed and extracted with a hydrophobic solvent like hexane then evaporated it to yield a lipid extract, and the lysergic acid derivatives were (unsuprisingly) found in that.

Edit: looks like an hcl meoh extraction.. I guess the lysergic acid could be more soluble in a protonated solution of a lipid too. Anyway, i wouldn't read too heavily into a communications paper from 50 years ago.