Concise large-scale synthesis of psilocin and psilocybin, principal hallucinogenic constituents of “magic mushroom”

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 …