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Would the ketones used effect the outcome of the end product by reacting and forming these imine side products...
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In many of the amateur chemist procedures that I've read online around tryptophan decarboxylation, acetone is used as the extracting solvent sometimes even used as the catalyst for the decarboxylation itself. Ketones and aldehydes readily form imines with primary amines, in our context...