I have been  trying to produce 3-methylindole, the stinky chemical found in erm...organic mud-pies shall we say, I have tried this by addition of 100ml of a 50% aq. soln. of NaOH to about 300 ml of a mixture of the white of one egg and water. The solution is then shaken violently for some time by hand and left for three hours, when there is a layer of coagulated albumen and a NaOH layer which I think contains the 3-methylindole in solution,
On addition of just over half an equal amount of boiling hot aq. HCl this seperates into three layers, a clear one at the bottom that I presume contains the remaining HCl, then an albumen layer of eggy refuse, and finally on the top there is a watery layer with a fine brown precipitate which I think is my 3-methylindole-HCl.

Can anybody help, I need to find a way to test my product to find out if it is what i think it is, I unfortunately cannot just sniff for the s#*$-smell, as I have lost almost all my sense of smell  

Can anybody help, I need to find a way to test my product to find out if it is what i think it is, I unfortunately cannot just sniff for the s#*$-smell, as I have lost almost all my sense of smell  

Haha.. same problem.. Lab work in school plus a sensitive nose equates to a loss of an acute sense of smell

let me know how that turns out, cause if it works I'm gonna try and reproduce your experiment. I could definantly use some spare shi... 3-methylindole.

I was thinking at work the other day wondering if it would be possible to make s#*$ in a chem lab.  Take some food and mush it up with some enzymes found in saliva, then digest it with HCl and enzymes found in the stomach, and just process it like the body would.  Eventually you remove some water from the mixture and you're just left with synthesized poop.  If you get a grant for the research and they ask for results, even if you didn't succeed you could always just crap in a beaker and show it to them.  lmao.