Production Options for Psilocybin: Making of the Magic.

Fricke J, Lenz C, Wick J, Blei F, Hoffmeister D (2019) Production Options for Psilocybin: Making of the Magic. Chemistry 25(4), 897-903. PubMed

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Claudius Lenz

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Biosynthesis of basidiomycete polyenes
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Abstract

The fungal genus Psilocybe and other genera comprise numerous mushroom species that biosynthesize psilocybin (4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine). It represents the prodrug to its dephosphorylated psychotropic analogue, psilocin. The colloquial term

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doi: 10.1002/chem.201802758 PMID: 30011099

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