the decomposition of lsd

[kasmurdanto]

hi everyone ! i have a technical question for you . Some of you may know that lsd , lsa , ergot alkaloid and all that stuff , is not stable at all .
during the process , how the chemister do against the oxydation by the oxygen ?
I know you can do all that in an inert atmosphere , with the dinitrogen for the example ...
But i assume that this way is much too complicated for a lot of "amateur" , this is really expansive .
So i read that some chemists use some antyoxidants instead of the dinitrogen , like the ascorbic acid .
But these antioxydants doesn't affect the product itself ?
Can the people who do that , just put the antyoxidant in the solution and do the exact same thing like there is no antioxydants ?

sorry for my english , i hope you can understand it even if it is pretty bad .