I should like to add that the academic literature going back to at least 1940 all refer to the base extraction of phenols and rescorcinols . In fact in 1960 the first proof of THCA being the major cannabinoid found in dried marijuana used a technique referred to as the standard “base extraction” for all rescorcinols. So your AI search for “patents” is preceded by 30-40 years of standard extraction procedure;
everyone just needs to wake up to the fact that cannabinoids are rescorcinols and rescorcinol derivatives.
@Roguelab: that spoon will have to be .9999 Silver …
Applicable quotes:
“Considerable interest has recently been focused on the alkali soluble part of cannabis resin. Although this fraction does not exhibit any marked hashish activityx,2, it has been observed that such constituents readily become converted by heat or by long standing into bio- logically active cannabinolic compounds which are in- soluble in aqueous alkali 1”
“After the isolation of canna- bidiolic acid from the alkali fraction of the resin ',5, this constituent was believed to be precursor of other canna- binolic substances “
The numbers refer to cited references below:
xA. MADINAVEITIA,P. B. RUSSEL,and A. R. TODD,J. chem. Soc. 1942, 6~8.
B. C. BOSEand B. MUKERJI,Nature 15e, I09 (1943).
3C.C.FULTON,Industr.eng.Chem.Analyt.Ed. 14,407 (1942).
4 Z. KREJ~Iand F. SAUTAVY,Acta Univ.Olomuc.6, 59 (1955).
s O.E. SCHULTZand G.HAFFNER,Arch.Pharm.291[63,391 (1958).
O.E. SCHULTZand G.HAFFNER,Arch.Pharm.293]65,1(1960). 7R. ADAMS,D. C. PEASE,C. K. CAIN,and J. H. CLARK,J. Amer.
chem.Soc.62, 1868(1944).
sj. LEVlNE,J.Amer.chem.Soc.66,1868(1944). o S. LOEWE,Science 102,615 (1945)
Quotes are from a 1961 short note by:
Lj. Grlic and A. Andrec,
Institute /or the Control o/ Drugs, Zagreb (Yugoslavia), March 37, 1961.
EXPERIENTIAXVII/7 15. VII. 1961 Brevi comunicazioni
1940-1941 was and interesting time…with Adams claiming priority of synthesis of the methylheptyl -tetrahydrocannabinol which was actively disputed by similar claimsof an advanced chem-group working in England at that time.
“The Schultz procedure involves the base extraction of acidic cannabinoids”. See ref. Above….
“”Water extraction”” of Cannabinoics was called “”Base Extraction”” for 25 years.
Does anyone wonder about “Butane works but no theory”