Aeruginascin, a trimethylammonium analogue of psilocybin from the hallucinogenic mushroom Inocybe aeruginascens

Abstract

Synthetic baeocystin (2)[1](10 mg, 37.0 mol) was dissolved in 250 L of H2O and mixed with 25 L of methyl iodide (57 mg, 402 mol) and 20 L of diisopropylethylamine (14.8 mg, 115 mol) in a microtube. Methanol was added dropwise in order to get a homogeneous solution. The …