Salvia Leads Chemists on a Psychedelic Existential Journey
Salvia Leads Chemists on a Psychedelic Existential Journey
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
January 8, 20189m 31s
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Show Notes
On August 2, synthetic organic chemist Ryan Shenvi stood before 300 people at the Natural Products and Bioactive Compounds conference and told them something he knew was sacrilegious: He’d synthesized salvinorin A, the active ingredient in the wildly intense hallucinogen salvia, and he hadn’t just copied a molecule, as synthetic organic chemists are wont to do. He had subtly changed its molecular structure, as synthetic organic chemists are not wont to do.
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