After a lot of research, experimentation and gnashing of teeth—we have successfully produced a D8-THC crude that completely non-detect D9-THC.
This was a joint effort of @chempistry and myself (and of course all our awesome employees) and I am not personally slanging this material as I’m not a verified slanger.
Please understand, we do not consider this a final product, and it has NOT been subjected to any downstream purification and is not intended as a ready-for-consumption product.
The purpose of these experiments was to prove that complete removal of D9-THC is possible—the chromatograph is provided here, @kcalabs indicated that the mass spec was left off the CoA, but that the sample has been passed through GCMS as well.
I’m curious if you have any worries about the product changing during distillation. Degradation and/or continued isomerization seems likely (in my head) when the product is subjected to high temps, under vacuum, while being distilled.
I’m also curious what the D8 crude smells like. Have you utilized any organoleptics and tasted it? I’m wondering if the crude could be usable as a final product.
Nicely done @TheGratefulPhil (and team)! Rad to see us still steadily moving forward!
Smells entirely neutral at this point, like a D9 distillate. I highly doubt it would revert back to D9–this crude is in a really stable energy state relative to a D8/D9 mixture.
More pictures to come, and when we’re ready to release for sale—a verified slanger Will post final product for sale along with results.
Jury’s out, but as far as I can tell this is a milestone to be celebrated for our team and for the D8 industry as a whole.
Congrats bro! If you guys are thinking of process scale chromatography as a solution for cleanup please message me! I am a distributor for large scale HPLC columns that you can pack yourself, and I have a chromatography R&D lab with multiple machines running different stationary phases specifically for the purpose of exploratory purification method experiments.
Should be a much easier higher throughput cleanup than the delta-8/delta-9 separations I have been developing since you don’t have any delta-9 in the first place!
