Fig. 1.
Synthesis of psilocybin [38]. L-Tryptophan is decarboxylated into tryptamine, to become methylated to form dimethyltryptamine (DMT). DMT is then oxidised forming psi-locin, which with the addition of a phosphate group forms psilocybin.
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