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Shirota O, Hakamata W, Goda Y. “Concise large-scale synthesis of psilocin and psilocybin, principal hallucinogenic constituents of 'magic mushroom'”. J Nat Prod. 2003 Jun 27;66(6):885-7. <a name="ref">Shirota O, Hakamata W, Goda Y.</a> <a href="/references/7708">"Concise large-scale synthesis of psilocin and psilocybin, principal hallucinogenic constituents of 'magic mushroom'"</a> <i>J Nat Prod</i>. 2003 Jun 27;66(6):885-7.
Text Abstract (this page) Full Text - English (private) Show Articles by Shirota O Hakamata W Goda Y Article IDs Erowid RefID: 7708 PubMedID: 12828485 Collections Hofmann Collection MDMA Collection All References	Abstract The concise large-scale syntheses of psilocin (1) and psilocybin (2), the principal hallucinogenic constituents of "magic mushroom", were achieved without chromatographic purification. The key step in the synthesis of 2 was the isolation of the dibenzyl-protected intermediate (7) as a zwitterionic derivative (8), which was completely identified by means of 2D NMR analyses.
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