I need a method to extract Atropine from raw Belladonna Plants... Usually boiling plant roots in water or soaking them in acetone would extract Atropine as well as many other compounds which might be extremely toxic (other alkaloids such as scopolamine and hyoscyamine)
Is there a method to purify Atropine in a basic chemistry lab with commonly available chemicals and equipment?
The extraction of Atropine from Atropa belladonna is not a simple method. It depend on the usage of the products and the alkaliods you want to get. For the starting of the extraction you have to know what part of the plants you want to extract. Are the plant old, dry, raw or fermented? The yield of the extraction and the formation of different other alkaloids by rearrangement of the substances depend on the acidity, temperature and solvent, which you use. The clean-up of your extract is not so easy because chlorophyll and fibers are in the extract, too.
For me the perculation and the soxhlet-extraction seemed the best method.
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